Social Media
Automated traffic—all non-human internet traffic—is growing eight times faster than human traffic, AI-driven traffic—traffic generated by or on behalf of AI systems—is the fastest-growing category of internet traffic, and for the first time, AI systems are not just reading the web but transacting on it.
Scary press release… But how convenient this company is warning about a threat that they promise to solve.
And yet not a single word in that entire article about bots being used to post on Internet forums to engineer public opinion, which is certainly what came to my mind when I read the headline.
The closest it comes is the section where it admits that because they’re all spoofing known Big Tech scrapers, they can’t actually say how much of any particular activity is actually going on beyond some broad generalizations.
I can confirm though - my web server was positively getting hammered until I locked it down with fail2ban.
Dead Internet Theory is no longer really a theory, it’s happening in real time.
Social media always felt like shouting into the void, but these days it feels like the void shouts back with advertisements and proaganda.
When I played Cyberpunk 2077, I thought the concept of the Blackwall was interesting, but a bit far fetched. A giant firewall to protect human networks from malicious AIs that got out of control on the internet? Nah.
Now I don’t think so anymore.
except that blackwall was put there by corporations to protect their interests(malicious ai not messing everything up). Here we need that kind of blackwall to protect our interest against corporations which are essentially the malicious entities. But I wonder if non-corporate people/groups can even consider such projects anymore let alone maintain them so it would protect more than couple of people or small groups. It seems to me humanity in the west has lost the community spirit completely. Even fediverse feels more like fading embers that still warm you. Its just everyone for themselves and maybe their own little clique.
i would really love to be wrong.
The Great Firewall exists. Tho it’s meant to control people, not AI.
At this point The Great Firewall is looking more like it’s protecting people from this AI slop. I have no idea how websites are in China, but I think I would be okay with Europe raising a great firewall against US owned companies.
The damage US far-right influencers (along with Russian funding of parties) is doing in Europe cannot be underestimated.
It’s made to counter US propaganda. In fact, any nation that doesn’t protect their information ‘borders’ are candy for US 3 letter agencies and their manipulation of their peoples information/values.
Have a firewall or succumb to US manipulation of your citizens. It’s that easy, so no wonder US have created the ‘bad bad firewall’ sentiment.
Oc people can’t rely on their governments only (especially in the West), so we must also have an information firewall that can reject pure propaganda nonsense before it reaches us. Moving from Reddit to Lemmy was a small step in that direction.
Federation clearly was an error, as it weakens the information borders.
AI and bots have officially taken over the Internet
This title makes no logical sense. An official statement about a thing has to come from the entity that is in charge of that thing. So, if AI and bots have taken over the internet, any official announcement would logically have to come from the AI or bots.
So this explains a lot. I’ve noticed that nearly every one of my most visited sites (mainly e-commerce, university, and tech-related) have seemed far slower than ever before…no matter what kind of device, connection, or location I use.
It’s actually getting quite irritating when I’ve been used to a certain speed experience prior.
Could it just be me? That is also possible.
No wonder why some sites started to lag so hard in recent months.
Yeah my favorite electronics hobby supplies website has started to take 2-10 seconds to load. Still great service and the best selection of modules in my region though. They should really throw Anubis in front of it.
Besides Anubis, is there any other tool that might work here?
I know about fail2ban and rate limiting configurations on Nginx level etc. But I mean, yes we have Anubis… But aside of Anubis??
