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by poly_morphis 1125 days ago
But why now and not a few years ago? The spike appears to have started at the beginning of this year which is most intriguing to me.
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mcgyver 1125 days ago
I went hunting for stats of topic trends on HN as the whole AI thing has gone bananas. Looking at the "ChatGPT" keyword chart [1] the volume is crazy and seems to line up time wise. It is a correlation but not sure if it is the right one.

[1] https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/keyword-analysis

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jruohonen 1125 days ago
No idea. Might be due to the AI hype? Or worse: bots?
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