Why do some bots visit a site eg Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and others....

[jag]

It is normal for search engine bots to visit a site for example Google and Bing but why do Twitter, Amazon, Facebook bots go to sites, they don't list content do they?

[viking]

As my hosting tech said about bits in general, bots will be bots rofl.

[TheButcher]

If only they would go away, I have it controlled with htaccess, robots and Cloufdflare.

[rx_tom]

I've often asked myself that very same question

[tacnet]

It's almost certainly to do with training their AI agents

These Large Language Model (LLM) AI systems basically work by reading every word on the internet and storing it all in a huge data center. The more they read, the better they are at understanding and generating human language (eg things like predicting the next word in a sentence).

The problem is they also pick up human prejudices and since they have no moral compass (something that is drilled into most humans as kids) they don't have any sense of what is right or wrong. To them, the word "murder" is just the same as the word "cake" which is kinda scary

[DeSexGuide]

It's almost certainly to do with training their AI agents

These Large Language Model (LLM) AI systems basically work by reading every word on the internet and storing it all in a huge data center. The more they read, the better they are at understanding and generating human language (eg things like predicting the next word in a sentence).

The problem is they also pick up human prejudices and since they have no moral compass (something that is drilled into most humans as kids) they don't have any sense of what is right or wrong. To them, the word "murder" is just the same as the word "cake" which is kinda scary

So it has the potential to lead to unintended misinformation

[razor]

Imagine a world where there were no online bots !

[BHT]

Imagine a world where there were no online bots !

3 years ago it was just about that dude then shit started happening biggly

[pussylover]

What use are these bots it is not as if I see sales from any hits form those sites.

[24alex]

Just block them problem solved

[tacnet]

Imagine a world where there were no online bots !

3 years ago it was just about that dude then shit started happening biggly

Yeah that's true

Everybody seems to be worried about what AI will do to humanity or how much electricity and water these huge AI data centers use, but NOBODY except us webmasters can see the damage they are doing to the internet