AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by newsclues on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:52PM (#42551680)

The amateurs at home are going to give the big companies what they want: an excuse for government regulation.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by throwaway290 on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:56PM (#42551716)

If it doesn't say it's a bot and it doesn't come from a corporate IP it doesn't mean it's NOT a bot and not run by some "AI" company.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by bodantogat on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:29PM (#42552086)

I have no way to verify this, I suspect these are either stealth AI companies or data collectors, who hope to sell training data to them

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by datadrivenangel on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:22PM (#42552538)

I've heard that some mobile SDKs / Apps earn extra revenue by providing an IP address for VPN connections / scraping.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by odo1242 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @07:49AM (#42573972)

Chrome extensions too

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by int_19h on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:57PM (#42563374)

Don't worry, the governments are perfectly capable of coming up with excuses all on their own.

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