While I'd like to believe the growth is organic, I fear it's simply bots scraping the internet for content to feed their AI.
*sigh*
Yep, despite the lawsuits about theft, the AI progenitors are still stealing to feed their creations. It's a little sad, not to mention my sarcastic pro-feminist agenda is not the content they really want. It's also amusing since the whole point of AI is to wipe out minority voices.
The dudebros creating AI don't want to admit this, but that is their and their bosses' endgame.
However, what's more amusing is while the dudebros get more people to use their AI algorithms, the more garbage is spilled into the wild. Now, the algorithms are harvesting that garbage and feeding in to themselves. Which results in nonsensical garbage.
On one hand, I foresee AI imploding on itself sooner rather than later.
On the other, we get Skynet.
Anyone want to flip a quarter on the outcome?