3,749 AI-run news sites exist, mostly targeting bot traffic
Exact_Importance_507 · reddit · 2026-09-02
There are now over 3,749 fully automated AI news sites across 16 languages. Most don't target human readers; they publish to get scraped by aggregators and bots, generating ad revenue from machine traffic. The author analogizes this to stale cache propagation without invalidation and frames it as an infrastructure problem, asking if there are technical solutions to combat this content loop.
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