{"id":757,"date":"2026-07-24T05:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/what-just-happened-to-thenumbers-com-should-worry-us-all\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T05:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:18:59","slug":"what-just-happened-to-thenumbers-com-should-worry-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/what-just-happened-to-thenumbers-com-should-worry-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all"},"content":{"rendered":"

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the theory that someone used AI to develop an advantage in a prediction market is entirely plausible. The Numbers experience shows us that: <\/span><\/p>\n

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    We now live in a world where a movie statistics website is worth hacking because<\/span> <\/span><\/span>prediction markets empower anyone to turn almost any data into money<\/strong>.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Hacking websites is now something anyone can do<\/strong> <\/span><\/span>with a cheap AI subscription.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The web<\/strong><\/span>, as we have it, is incredibly fragile<\/strong><\/span> in the face<\/span> <\/span><\/span>of large-scale swarms of agentic AI bots.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Google crawls about five pages for every visitor it sends you. OpenAI crawls over 1,000. Anthropic crawls over 38,000 pages for every single visitor it refers.<\/p>\n

    \u2014 Read on stephenfollows.com\/p\/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    the theory that someone used AI to develop an advantage in a prediction market is entirely plausible. The Numbers experience shows us that:  We now live in a world where a movie statistics website is worth hacking because prediction markets empower anyone to turn almost any data into money.  Hacking websites is now something anyone can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,24,172],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-computing","tag-prediction-markets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}