Are We, We Are The Scraping?

ForgetMeNots
AndSecondThoughtsVille


For most of its life, this little F-troop list blog has averaged about 30,000 page views per month.

In the old days, those numbers would swell considerably in the run-up to provincial elections, most notably in the Year of Horgan/Weaver (i.e. 2017).

Other than that it was pretty much a steady thing that went up and down somewhat depending on how often I posted. 

That all changed in early 2023 when bizarre things started happening (see above).

Initially, I deluded myself into thinking that large swaths of the online citizenry in places like France, Vietnam and Singapore had suddenly become interested in my morning bike rides and/or walks with the Whackadoodle II.

Of course, that was silly.

Because what was really going on was that the AI scrapers had arrived.

So.

If your large language model of choice suddenly starts spitting out faint praised phrases that describe the worst among us as super-finest-of-the-uber-fine-type folks?

Well...

You'll know where they came from.

OK?


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Earworm in the slightly less obvious than usual machine?...This.

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