If my hit rates to the blog are to be believed one of three things is going on!
1. I have become increasingly popular as a blogger
2. There are far less blogs to read out there, or
3. AI bots are trawling blogs for data to use in large language model AIs.
I have gone from barely crawling into the 20 - 30 hits per post to a steady 150ish and those hits are almost instant after I hit post!
I don't really think I have become better at blogging as unlike Mary Poppins I'm not "practically perfect in every way" and the content can't be that interesting to a general reader with no interest in wargaming. I also haven't noticed a major falling off of blog posting either, which leaves me to believe that the AI web crawlers are back.
Is anyone else finding the same thing?
I really don't think the AI scraping every truly left. It seems to come in waves. For today, I have seen 20,000+ pageviews in the first twelve hours.
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