The report found that bot attacks increased by 167 percent in the first half of the year, with a staggering 291 percent increase in intelligent bots.

New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

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Okay, bot. I believe it, doesn’t surprise me at all. Lemmy is also full of bots.

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I’m a bot

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No I’m not!

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Yeah dead internet. And I hope this news will kill online marketing for good

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Was scrolling through Facebook as I still use it to keep in touch with family. 20 sponsored posts for every one actual post. Facebook is terrible.

Soon there will be content created and consumed entirely by generative “ai,” an almost shadow-culture.

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I miss the days when the internet was a fad that most people were apathetic towards.

before we even had search engines, and had to rely on websites listing links to every website.

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How much of the internet is automated should be the real question.

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More evidence for the Dead Internet Theory

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I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing if people were good, but it can easily be abused as we’ve seen with election manipulation.

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i hate it when i open my laptop and there’s an error sign blocking the trackpad

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