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49.6% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2023, a 2% increase over the previous year, and the highest level Imperva has reported since it began monitoring automated traffic in 2013. For the fifth consecutive year, the proportion of web traffic associated with bad bots grew to 32% in 2023, up from 30.2% in 2022, while traffic from human users decreased to 50.4%. Automated traffic is costing organizations billions (USD) annually due to attacks … More → The post Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic appeared first on Help Net Security.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everyone and their brother are scraping any and all available data to feed it into AI. Expect this rise to continue as it will be a new source of revenue.

[–] garrett 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gonna end up being one bot talking to another, believing that they're gonna make money off each other soon enough.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago
[–] garrett 4 points 2 years ago

But Wikipedia still calls the Dead Internet Theory a "conspiracy theory". smh

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So libs are right half the time when they're calling me a Russian bot? That actually makes a lot of sense. I feel like I live the same day every day, and all I do is go to the bread factory to make some bougie asshole rich.