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that new traffic likely was from AI and their scrapers. So no, not much of a net positive.

I mean, scraper traffic should be pretty easy to tell.

Now, AI posting bots are much more difficult.

I think the scrapers have gotten pretty good and can imitate real traffic. And it isn’t just scraping for model training. A large amount would be LLM tool calls searching the web (and HN) for info about some prompt.

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