- Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale
- For the first time in a decade, automated traffic surpassed human activity, accounting for 51% of all web traffic
- API-directed attacks surged to 44% of advanced bot traffic, with the travel sector topping the list for bot attacks overall
The internet has turned into a wasteland of slop in no time flat. If you use any of the major search engines to try to find information on something, you can only count on a small handful of sites in the results giving you actual human articles and discourse. Even engines that used to position themselves as being the more organic and friendly choice (I’m looking at you DDG, you’re fucking worthless now.)
Dead Internet so far seems to be winning.
accounting for 51% of all web traffic
That we know of! 👈😉👈
I’m still holding out on saying dead Internet theory is inevitable. With projects like Anubis and, hell, even projects like Nepenthes ( the one that confuses the AI by sending them to garbage site pages with enough “data” to trap them ), I think it’s more than possible for us to beat the AI by creating our own web 2.5 to keep ourselves safe from the outside.
