It just means automated search, like a search engine does constantly to stay relevant. Yes ai’s do it, but also tons of websites and businesses.
Bad bots do it too, but they are bad
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SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Scraping? Isn’t this what all the ais are doing?
thallamabond@lemmy.world 7 months ago
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And posting to Reddit if I recall correctly :)
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I use flip which let’s me know when discounts are available. Also camel camel camel scrapes amazon. Scraping is pulling information off websites.