Hello Come on in. The water's fine.

[techman81]

Happened to notice the forum traffic statistics showing over 250 people online and less than 10 were members, the rest guests. I just wanted to say to all the lurking guests, come on in, the water's fine. Piranha's might bite, but we don't.

 

[BenB]

Yeah, right now 7 members and 393 guests. I can't help but feel even though it also says 35 bots, that maybe some of the 393 are also bots. The 35 are just the honest ones? I don't know how this works, so maybe there are 393 lurkers but seems a bit crazy. You can make an account and hide that you are logged in.

 

[Koan]

maybe some of the 393 are also bots

No those are our legit readers!

[waves] Hey there!

Xenforo is pretty good at identifying bots Although you will know when we're getting an LLM trawler hit from China, because readership will spike over 4k

 

[Art]

I have access to more detailed statistics.

At the moment, there are 4 members, 301 guests and 501 robots. The guests you are seeing are mostly humans.

 

[BenB]

an LLM trawler hit

What is an LLM trawler hit?

 

[gnatster]

LLM trawler

Large Language Model trawler. More info

 

[BenB]

Large Language Model trawler. More info

That's a lot to read. So basically a data miner to train AI?

 

[Art]

Yes.

 

[Koan]

a data miner to train AI

What is being popularized as "AI" is a Large Language Model.

There's no "intelligence" there

It's a chatbot, ported to a massive and indiscriminate data source.