Bringing this discussion up because the last post and a Forbes article from last year came up simultaneously in the past 24 hours. The Forbes article here: https://archive.is/MC2pV says that in 2024 human internet traffic only accounted for 50.4% of the total, and based on the rate of growth it’s safe to assume it’s now less than half versus bots and this isn’t even including real people who just copy paste chat gpt scripts. This is also the basis of the dead internet theory where your interactions aren’t real anymore, they’re with bots trying to shift the Overton Window.
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It's really important to note that traffic doesn't mean content or posters. Traditional web crawlers that index websites for a search engine are bots, for example, even though they're only "reading" pages. It's not surprising to me that a significant chunk of web traffic is automated tools, especially when you consider how much data corporations and governments are looking to ingest today.
When you look at the demographic shift third worlders on the internet basically act and feel like AI bots anyways.