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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 โ€” and the implications for trust, security, and commerce are massive.

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[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 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.