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

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I couldn’t click the cookie policy garbage because the AI chat bot obscured the buttons on that page.

  Talk about AI slop

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• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Soooo what’s the other 20% if not crawlers?

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  • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    3 Indian Tech workers in a trench coat.

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are they sure that the Meta traffic is AI bots? A lot of people share links on Meta products, which scrape the links to generate a preview.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Aren't those requests made from client devices?

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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• 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Meta actually leading the way with something, however negative it is!

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