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From the filtered posts, looks like something happened somewhere between Feb and April 2025. My guess would be something like Claude searching the web which gives users a clickable link, and gpt-4o updates driving the uptick in these posts. Reducing friction for links can be a pretty big driver of clicks, iirc aella talked about this somewhere; none of the other model updates/releases seem like good candidates to explain the change.
Things that happened according to o3:
Grok 3 releases in mid-Feb
GPT-4.5 released in end-Feb (highly doubt this was the driver tho)
Claude 3.7 Sonnet released in end-Feb
Anthropic shipped web search in mid-March
GPT-4o image-gen released in end-March alongside relaxed guardrails
Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental in end-March
o3+o4-mini in mid-April
GPT-4.1 in the API in mid-April
GPT-4o syncopancy in end-April
Maybeeee Claude 3.7 Sonnet also drives this but I'm quite doubtful of that claim given how Sonnet doesn't seem as agreeable as GPT-4o
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.