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And does that AI bot traffic not hit all the other sites too? Not trying to be a dick. Occams razer. Sometimes it's not a conspiracy and things really are as they seem.
Using bots to drive up the traffic of your site is stupidly common, has been a thing even before LLMs, and does not require driving up traffic to every site on the internet. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Very true but if you look at the top 10 sites online I bet they're all propping up their traffic metrics with bots which means to some extent it becomes a moot point. Anecdotally in the real world I see the use of AI very prevalent which lends to the fact that it is widespread and universally adopted despite what the bubble here says.