1 Billion-Page Test Exposes the Real Cost of AI Crawling

A developer created roughly 1 billion web pages to test the “dead internet theory,” highlighting that AI-driven web traffic is no longer just a metaphor but a direct cost. The posts argue that while users may pay for tools like ChatGPT, site owners are increasingly left with the infrastructure bills from large-scale AI scraping.

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