More Than Half the Internet Is Now Bots (mothasa.substack.com)

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Bot traffic has officially overtaken human traffic on the internet. From scraping to click fraud to AI training crawlers, the web is increasingly a machine-to-machine environment — and the implications for trust, security, and commerce are massive.

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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 4 days ago

Federation probably counts on the bot side. Every vote, post, or comment probably gets federated to dozens of servers on average, if it's a popular community then likely thousands.

[-] m3t00@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

. lookit the ad- bot see the ad-bot, lookit the ad see the ad-bot... infinite recursion 🟰 profit. this bubble is going to be lit. then the satellites will destroy themselves and it won't be safe to leave earth for hundreds of years. sad trombone slide 🦴

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgMVw38xkA

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