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spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThere is no difference between emptying a glass of water and draining swimming pool either if you ignore the total volume of water.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I, too, can make any argument sound silly if I want to argue in bad faith.
A user cannot physically generate as much traffic as a bot.
Just like a glass of water cannot possibly contain as much water as a swimming pool, so pretending the two are equal is ignorant in both cases.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You are so close to getting it!
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And you’re not even close.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The AI doesn’t just do a web search and display a page, in grabs the search results and scrapes multiple pages far faster than a person could, which is bot behavior.
It doesn’t matter whether a human initiated it when the load on the website is far, far higher and more intrusive in a shorter period of time with AI compared to a human doing a web search and reading the cobtent themselves.