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Rise of the Machines

Perhaps an AI / LLM has learned to write just like I do:

Blog visitors - 2024-12-09
Blog visitors – 2024-12-09

The same thing happened last month, although a closer look shows no human can read that fast:

Blog visitors - detail - 2024-11-12
Blog visitors – detail – 2024-11-12

These Dirac-delta pulses seem to be a new thing, with one “reader” hitting many posts, rather than many readers hitting a single post. I can’t tell if it’s a new way for search engines to scan pages or an entirely new algorithm doing the scanning.

Should you run across another blog with similar verbiage, you know where it started …

Comments

One response to “Rise of the Machines”

  1. Frans Avatar

    If we think positively, it could just be a human making a local mirror before this website disappears.

    (Not made up, I do that kind of thing once in a while — wasn’t me though.)