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		ActVen 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI companies cause most of traffic on forums It might be very interesting to check your current traffic against recent api outages at OpenAI. I have always wondered how many bots we have out there in the wild acting like real humans online. If usage dips during these times, it might be enlightening. https://x.com/mbrowning/status/1872448705124864178

layer8 7 months ago [–]

I would expect AI APIs and AI scraping bots to run on separate infrastructures, so the latter wouldn’t necessarily be affected by outages of the former.

ActVen 7 months ago | [–]

Definitely. I'm just talking about an interesting way to identify content creation on a site.

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