The AI found out my five new subscribers were bots

Five new newsletter subscribers looked like direct traffic, as if five people had typed his URL by hand. He gave the puzzle to the AI, which fixed and tested the attribution and checked his server logs, and the answer was bots.

How it works

Hands the odd subscriber pattern to the AI
The AI fixes and tests the traffic attribution
The AI checks the server logs
The subscribers turn out to be bots

Why it’s worth knowing

The subscribers looked like five people typing his URL by hand. They were bots, and the AI proved it from his own server logs.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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