I've been writing this blog for almost thirteen years without bothering overmuch about whether anyone read it. I write it for myself, and only do so when I feel like it. Over the years I may have had a couple of specific readers in mind from time to time when I wrote particular posts, but one of them's husband found out and the other one died. Obviously, being my own target audience means that I am not particularly concerned with telling the truth and any stray passers-by who read posts would do well not to take what I write too literally.
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Why am I telling you this? Because suddenly I have readers, "Fousands of 'em". It would seem that 10% of all the views that the blog has ever had occurred in June 2025. Now, clearly these aren't proper sentient people. They aren't even wargamers. I'm assuming they're AI bots expanding their 'learning' to cover my ramblings. Don't you find it worrying that our new overlords will treat all this made-up tosh with a much seriousness as they do a serious thing on a serious subject written in a serious way by the Scottish philosopher Jock 'Serious' McSerious? I know I do.
There will be some student's assignment somewhere, written via AI that will detail entirely fictional battles that AI cannot work out were simply games. Cheers
ReplyDeleteBig brother is watching
ReplyDeleteWell, I am a regular reader - though you can only take my word for it that I am not AI-generated. I have also found a bit of an uptick of views recently, but the 'More about this blog' tab on the Stats page in Blogger reveals that well over half of my recent viewers have been from Brazil, Vietnam, Hong Kong or Indonesia. Of course there may be a thriving 'old school' wargaming scene in all of those places - Featherstone and Grant may be celebrities there...
ReplyDeleteI like the idea that some completely fictitious war that only occurred on a tabletop may be somehow incorporated into future 'history'.