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Internet — The End is Nigh
The internet is dying. 57% of internet traffic is just bots. I don't agree with Cloudflare controlling a huge chunk of internet, but at least we get alarming reports like these. Bots generate more traffic than humans.
Article: PCMag
Social: Cloudflare Founder
Cloudflare report: radar
Comments
Half of the IRL lobby are also illogical, braindead zombies whats the difference?
And they've started attacking!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1tvv0jw/robot_kicks_boy_in_stomach_during_performance
BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOP
This was great
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I suppose we'll have a split, two webs instead of only one.
One of those two webs will have only bots interacting with each other.
The other web will have humans interacting with each other; and bots pretending to be humans and stealing from humans whatever they can find.
A dark future with AI
So what?
50% of all email sent is spam. That hasn't killed email.
I think there is a logical fallacy here because it assumes that there is some kind of cap on Internet traffic. Looking at percentages is the wrong way to look at things. If there is $X exabytes of human activity and we add in exabytes and exabytes of bot traffic, that doesn't change the human activity. I don't think it's right to think that bot traffic is going to "crowd out" the humans, which is what's being implied when you look at it as a percentage.
Soon every hair salon on the block will have their personal little army of bots posting comments, reviews, and inflating likes
The 80/20 rule of thumb states that the best 20% of contributions generate 80% of the value created.
In the case of bot contribution to creation of knowledge a 99/1 (bot/human) rule will be far too generous, the contribution of bots to the creation of new knowledge will be closer to 0% than to a small fraction 1%, even when the proportion or their contributions is far in excess of 99%.
Too ugly to show.
Instead of looking for a spike in Pizza consumption, we now gonna watch traffic graphs.
Next drone attack, you gonna see a spike on the local IX.
Not today, we have time.
Made by humans, Made for humans
The era of klankers.
i hate bots to the point im blocking bot ASN like AWS/GCP/Azure and others
Fuck, they've found the porn.
Ah yes, "Dead Internet Theory". We have dismissed that claim.
In all seriousness there is a huge conflation of terms here: everyone is a bot. You post content my political side does not like? You're a bot. You wrote a python script to pull down a paginated article (that some news outlets still do in 2026)? You're a bot. You're a Chinese LLM developer scraping for content? You're a bot. You're scalper hammering a ticket or collectibles website from 8 residential subnets? You're a bot.
I remember there was a bit of an oopsie when a government emergency services notification account on X was rate-limited for being a bot - no shit it was a bot, the X account was reposting from the emergency alerts system that was also sending people text messages.
Not all bots are created equal.
But seriously...
I miss the 1990s Internet. Even then there were bots spreading disinformation but it was a kinder, gentler place.
At least websites in the 90s didn't load 50mb of jank javascript...!