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I'm pretty sure it is the commercial demand for data from AI companies. It is certainly the popular conception among sysadmins that it is AI companies who are r

• embedding-shape 11mo ago
  > and I see no compelling alternative. Another potential cause: It's way easier for pretty much any person connected to the internet to "create" their own automation software by using LLMs. I could wager even the less smart LLMs could handle "Create a program that checks this website every second for any product updates on all pages" and give enough instructions for the average computer user to be able to run it without thinking or considering much. Multiply this by every person with access to an LLM who wants to "do X with website Y" and you'll get an magnitude increase in traffic across the internet. This been possible since what, 2023 sometime? Not sure if the patterns would line up, but just another guess for the cause(s).