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bySlashbotAgent ( 6477336 ) writes:
Destroying website? No, that's bullshit.
Destroying website page views by giving the user the data without attribution or even visiting the site? Yea. that's totally happening.
It's not damaging any sites. It's damaging the revenue of a few sites and their pissed. Perhaps rightly so. But the horses have left the barn and the barn has burned down.
bytopham ( 32406 ) writes:
They are more aggressive than standard bots, and often follow links in a pathological way.
We've had to cut multiple bots off that weren't following robots.txt recommendations.
Balancing performance for real users is a challenge when the bots go overly aggressive and the tools for managing them aren't quite there yet.
bywill4 ( 7250692 ) writes:
Conjecture 1:
- Spread out a few hundred content rich, with new content added daily useful web sites hosted around the world.
- Post the traffic stats especially from bot scraper like traffic on a daily basis.
- When the bot traffic drops off substantially, the LLM fueled race is near its end.
- Sell all of your high flying AI industry hyped up chipmaker and other AI stocks.
Conjecture 2:
- Due to demographics (wave of 30+ people aging out of the dating/child having years) and negative interactions for any social media posts, larger numbers of people in the 30+ age range will pull back from needing to attention seek on social media leading to less and less human produced content for LLMs to train on.
Conjecture 3:
- Someone will do a billion lines of code analysis of GitHub by language and find that most languages have 25% to 40% too many language features which are rarely used and could be dropped for a "low-complexity" version of the language
Conjecture 4:
- Same as conjecture 3 but for cars, smart televisions, and the many current and possible future subscription service / entertainment platforms
Conjecture 5:
- Some other country with major financial markets will allow for stock buybacks as a way to draw in capital from the rest of the world
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