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November 11.25: Coping, but barely

Something has been going on with my blog for a while now, and I must ask you, dear reader, if you’ve noticed anything similar. I have had bizarre spikes in views, I mean in the hundreds. This is blaringly inconsistent with my history; my blog is small in terms of readers, and now suddenly there are 800 views in a few hours? No, I don’t think so.

To me, this seems likely the result of automation. Would this be what it would look like if our blogs were being “scraped” by some AI company?