Gone are the days when trolls and pop-up ads were destroying the internet. Those days seem quaint in retrospect. Today, the internet is being cannibalized by a swarm of AI bots munching data across the internet, maybe even occasionally posing as a real person to get you to buy their cryptocoin.

According to Cloudflare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic now comes from bots. These are the sophisticated digital vacuum cleaners from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic that suck up website data to train their AI models.

All this comes as OpenAI’s Sam Altman somehow just started realizing that a lot of the people on the internet might be fake. In fact, entire portions of the internet are comprised of bots communicating with other bots, with little to no human involvement in any of it.

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