Comment on New Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic

dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Aren't those requests made from client devices?

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They are for anything that’s E2E encrypted (so that the link isn’t revealed to Meta servers), but for public posts on Facebook, the server does the scraping.

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• bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It would not surprise me to see that the traffic traced back to “scrapers”. A user’s perceived relevance often ties to the recency of the dataset.

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