[Yahyaaa]

I wonder if "traffic" is becoming the wrong metric. A human visit has always implied someone consuming the content. An AI crawler may never generate a pageview from a human, yet it can still become the mechanism by which someone discovers your work later through an assistant.

In that world, machine visits aren't necessarily noise, they're another distribution channel.

[berardino]

Regarding your statement: “In that world, machine visits aren't necessarily noise; they're another distribution channel.” The problem is the ongoing transfer of decision-making authority to automated tools. This will reinforce the illusion that we are making decisions based on human knowledge rather than on the knowledge of automated tools.