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AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds

16 points by arbuge ago | 6 comments

vivzkestrel |next [-]

what happens to online revenue for everyone if say 90% of the traffic becomes bots?

knollimar |root |parent |next [-]

Presumably the usage of humans stays relatively constant and costs for infrastructure increase 5 to 10x.

Just means you just pay out 1/10th as much per traffic; you already had some estimator for signal to noise measuring buying likelihood. It's just gonna drop

shalg |root |parent |next |previous [-]

As long as humans keep using the internet I can’t see it mattering too much. Has this impacted the amount people who are using social media I wonder.

arbuge |root |parent |next |previous [-]

That depends to a large extent on whether & when the bots will be endowed with spending power.

bluefirebrand |root |parent |previous [-]

Hopefully it goes to zero

Maybe if the internet's value is absolutely destroyed we can start over. Or just bury it in the past

chinadata |previous [-]

Because the major user of internet is also change to AI and bot, human only talk to AI and bot instead of search on Internet