Spiders multiplying?

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, AI training

Wow! I thought spider scanning the past few days was heavy. Today the total is about 50,000 views. A new record by a large factor. The spiders seem to be multiplying.

This is the rate chart for the past 24 hours:

A blast of activity, that peaked above 6,500/hour, hit a lull, and then rose to roughly one hit per second (~3,600/hr) for the past eight hours. I looked at the "now" record to see that in detail, there are peaks of 2-3 per second with little dips between, but few minutes pass that contain fewer than 20 hits each. Here is the country breakdown for the past 24 hours:

Brazil again tops the list with about 17% of the total, with the US and Iraq (!) tied for second with 5% each. As usual, many countries have large counts. I can only attribute this to AI training. I mean, now much spying could be going on related to the Ukraine and Iran wars? Well, perhaps a lot. Particularly with a critical deadline arriving in three hours as I write this.

I guess more frequent checking is warranted. This may be a barometer of something…