The Fall of Stack Overflow: SO has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of Q&A, as well as the number of votes. The AI bots hit SO hard for sure, at least that is what I think. I still SO as top answer in Google but Bing is upto no good. LOL. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
Programming topics answers are easier to replicate using AI chatbots. They never took any action to block bots. Take a look at Twitter, FB, Insta, and others. They quickly stopped OpenAI and other AI bots to avoid the same disaster. The risk of losing independent forums to AI bots means newer content is no longer created. All your info will come from AI that Microsoft, Google & co control. Is that what you want? Four companies own the whole web. Be careful what you wish for.
