My overall traffic has suddenly gone up 100x, with this last week up 3x, all of my posts from May 2025 visited two hundred times each two days ago, and a similar weirdness for Oct 4-9 targeting other months in the last ten years.
They come from phones in South America and Southern Asia, but except for one American Osteopathy site, the majority come from the vast category of "other."
Whatever it is, something automated is looking for something here, and I doubt that's good.
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My theory: In China the English-language training databases for LLMs are running out of pre-4th--quarter 2022 writing thats guaranteed to not be ai-contaminated, or want writing on any current controversies that's not written with AI assistance. The bots have become confident that you are not one.
That's true of all AI training, and there are significant problems associated with training AI on AI-generated content (see 'AI autophagy disorder' or 'model collapse'). It could be Gemini, which is Google's; Google owns Blogger too, and probably has legal authority from its many 'sign this or we stop supporting you' end user license agreements.
I did have the site checked about month ago, and it detected no artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, it didn't detect any natural intelligence either.
It doesn't have to be recent. A random post that got over 200 reads in the last 7 days was from 2008.
Gotta figure that you're going to get some random AI traffic/bot traffic at various points going forward without any obvious reason why. It's only gonna become more common.
Dead internet theory is only going to seem more and more true.
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