I’ve had a total of 921 Bot hits on my archive but what’s worrying is that 756 came from Facebook, what is Meta doing? This has happened three days in a row and the numbers are going up. I’ve never had this happen before and I can’t help but be alarmed. Of course, I’ve heard nothing back from WordPress and don’t expect to. I have to believe the Bot is targeting WordPress versus my blog.
I don’t know if this is a security risk or just searching for content to use to answer questions asked by their system. I was stalked several years ago by a blogger I knew, they hacked my system, terrorized and made it look like it was two bloggers I trusted. They had a mental illness that consisted of several personalities of which I did not know the names. They sent me texted and sent messages while I was typing. I came to believe they didn’t plan to hurt me and one day she used her real name. Once I confronted her the stalking stopped. I was a long seven months and it affected me greatly.
To say I’m concerned when these types of events happen is an understatement. I don’t know if this is the future of AI or something more sinister.
Can anyone enlighten me on what is happening and if I need to be alarmed. I would truly appreciate your feedback. The number of countries that have seen an increase in the views of the archives have gone and it’s from countries that never read through my archives. Today it’s up to six countries.
Thank you.
Melinda
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Melinda, that does not sound good, to me! I’ve been lucky, bots have mostly left me alone!
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I am hopeless at understanding this.
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Bots are one funtion of AI, in my case the bots from Meta are reading thousands of post each week to help train the Bots and add to the knowledge they have. Then you use a Bot to ask a question and it mulls through all the data it has collected to answer your question.
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Indexing your site? Training AI?
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Whar does indexing you site mean?
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The bot downloads the entire content of your site. It can’t make a difference between an individual post page and a tag page so it downloads everything multiple times. Why it needs that content – depends. Likely for a search engine, also likely for AI training.
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That’s sounds invasive and a bit uncool.
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There’s a setting somewhere that bans the known AI bots from accessing your site but leaves the search engines. I personally don’t mind, let them crawl whatever they like. I don’t think there’s any harm.
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There’s no harm if they show your blog when someone ask a question. Or should I say that’s the bonus. When I ask Copilot questions it shows the refrences at the bottom. That will drive traffic to your blog which is cool. I thank you so much for taking the time to explain what is going on. I’m checking out your blog to see what you’re all about. :)
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