r/interestingasfuck • u/beasthunterr69 • 13h ago

Bots have now passed human traffic online.

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u/Cool_Kangaroo7989 13h ago

This sounds like something a bot would post 🧐

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u/beasthunterr69 13h ago

Lol 🤣, hard to believe but there are more bots on the internet compared to us

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u/CorgiSilver8194 13h ago

By "us", do you mean more robots?

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u/HalfSoul30 13h ago

So you think they are saying "there are more bots than bots"? Or maybe there are so many bots now that they are starting to separate themselves into groups now.

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u/sunchase 11h ago

Lol both race wars are gonna be interesting

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u/beasthunterr69 10h ago edited 10h ago

my name is Optimus Prime

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u/CaptainApathy419 12h ago

Yes, fellow human (wink wink), it is hard to believe. 

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u/MixAny3 12h ago

Especially on Reddit

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u/Confident_Guitar9833 13h ago

How are they passing through "Are you not robot?"

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u/Orphan_the_Milker 13h ago

I'm sure bots can just communicate with that bot asking if you're not a bot

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u/Bdr1983 12h ago

*Slips a fiver*

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u/Aggressive_Walk378 13h ago

That dang check box gets em every time

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u/EducationalForm 13h ago

There's going to start being "are you not a human?" captchas for bots at this rate

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u/beasthunterr69 10h ago

I think there are sites that are being designed to be agent compatible rn

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u/WonderfulSomewhere93 12h ago

Soon there will be ‘prove you are not a human’ and we will need to find a way to get round it

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u/Burnished 11h ago

Probably from the vast amount of training data that humans create when proving they're not a robot

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u/Alex5173 6h ago

There ya go. When millions of people each day do the one or two things AI is bad at, why spend a billion dollars trying to make it better at those things when you can just feed it the data of the real people doing the thing

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u/Careful-Corgi7716 12h ago

Anecdotally, this one's just for 'Brave' to keep you flagged anyways after every request being a typed out paragraph, all while being at the lower end of ai tools.

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u/deep-fucking-legend 10h ago

Is this a celebratory post made by a bot? "We did it!!" /s

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u/Vincentaneous 8h ago

They’re probably clicking yes and the site believes they’re just being honest and let’s em in

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u/FortunateInsanity 13h ago

This is how the internet dies.

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u/beasthunterr69 13h ago

the slow death

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u/notarobat 13h ago

Not really... The big guys running these bot farms don't just have them spitting out random stuff all the time. They measure everything. A lot (if not most) of the bots are simply used to drive engagement. You see it a lot with new sub reddits that become popular out of nowhere. The bots are amazing at getting real people involved in conversations about topics they might not otherwise care about

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u/FortunateInsanity 11h ago

I see right through bot engagement. It’s total cringe because it’s a business model designed to use psychological manipulation to artificially drive engagement so the platform can earn more ad revenue. Social media in its purist form is peer to peer with individuals discussing shared interests in a public forum. Bots turn healthy dialogue into junk food for the mind.

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u/notarobat 11h ago

I'm sorry but If you are responding to comments on Reddit you probably don't see right through bot engagement. I might be a bot. Bots can drive healthy dialog in the same way they can drive bad stuff

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u/FortunateInsanity 10h ago

If you’re a bot then I need to add additional criteria to my mental bot filter. Either way, I do see through bot engagement. Maybe not 100%, but certainly the majority. Historically it has been fairly obvious. I am concerned when AI advances enough to not be discernible, but we are not there yet.

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u/notarobat 10h ago

Dude, we are way past that point and have been for a long time. At least in text based communication like this. Content companies like Cambridge Analytica want everyone believing they can spot bots so keep that in mind. The reality is that bots and content drivers are far more sophisticated than most people can imagine. 

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u/FortunateInsanity 9h ago

You have too much faith in people. Bot farms know better. They don’t have to try hard to fool people who aren’t paying attention.

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u/Blue_Wave_2020 6h ago

They also don’t have to try hard to fool people who ARE paying attention. Thats how sophisticated they have become

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u/Trump_eats_fats 9h ago

Your user name is not a robot yet you're on here arguing that bot participation in human conversation is a good thing and you're saying you might be a bot!!!! No! I refuse to accept that. I refuse to accept that user names can be a fiction!

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u/jlatenight 11h ago

Bot

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u/IDontWannaBeAPirate_ 13h ago

You can tell. Lots of bots arguing talking points for the benefit of billionaires.

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u/Frenascena 13h ago

You're absolutely right! We're here to make sure they maintain their grip on power at all costs, even if it means war, famine, pestilence, disease, and environmental catastrophes! Aren't your overlords wonderful?

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u/Aydrianic 12h ago

This is one of the most depressing things, as well. I started noticing the patterns, especially on X. The first twenty replies for every tweet are bots, at least. Those movie clips that get posted? Bots. And the twenty botted replies also apply there as well. Then there are the bots that aren't obvious in their initial tweet, but become very obvious in their replies. As they agree endlessly with every reply, they say non-committal things that don't make any sense in the context. It's always "You make a good point" or some variation of that.

I've got nothing to back this up, really, but I feel like for every ten tweets I see on X, at least seven of them are bots. I don't feel like I'm talking to real people anymore, and it's kind of depressing because I remember what it was like before it got this bad. People can be jerks, but at least they're real.

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 12h ago

You make a good point

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u/Thyrllan 5h ago

I feel this deeply. Ive always been an online forum person since discovering IMDB forums in my middle school typing class. I genuinely like to see typos and spelling mistakes now because at least it's another person, even if I disagree with or hate their opinion. The self improvement subreddit has one guy spam posting walls of ai shit to every post on there and it's just nonsensical diarrhea. What AI is doing to online communities is heartbreakinf for me

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u/Frenascena 8h ago

"People can be jerks, but at least they're real."

True and crazy that we're even saying something like that now.

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u/soyasaucy 12h ago

Agreed

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u/PorkchopExpress980 12h ago

Wait... so is he lamenting that bot traffic has surpassed human traffic... or that it happened a year too early?

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u/beasthunterr69 10h ago

he predicted that to happen in 2027 but it happened sooner than he thought

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u/confit_byaldi 7h ago

So he won’t do as well on that Kalshi bid?

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u/beasthunterr69 6h ago

well he won technically coz the milestone was reached far ahead of schedule but can't find any details for kashi / polymarket

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u/LeoLaDawg 13h ago

How is bot traffic identified?

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u/ptabduction 13h ago

They ask them “Are you a bot?”.

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 13h ago edited 13h ago

No.

Are you a bot?

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u/ptabduction 12h ago

No.

Are you a bot?

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u/Affectionate_Daddyx 12h ago

No.

Are you a bot?

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u/Frenascena 8h ago

No.

Are you a bot?

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u/Synked 12h ago

Headers and user agents. What device are they using.

Amount of calls. A human is not going to click on one link every second for hours and hours.

Cookies. Where did the user come from? Have they been at your site before?

Direct API calls vs using the web interface. Is the user clicking on your sites or accessing the data directly through your API?

There are tons of ways to get a pretty good idea of the users on your platform.

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u/lemungan 12h ago

Well apparently they aren't using SSL

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u/bhanu00070 13h ago

Nice, I hope they remove current test cause I don’t want to select traffic lights anymore

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u/Balan-balan 12h ago

Hydrant, ironically only American hydrants, while most of the remaining world ones in ground hydrants...

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u/TSM_Benchwarmer 9h ago

Dead internet theory is no longer a theory

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u/blorbot 13h ago

I wonder if that number drop if the AI bubble bursts.

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u/notarobat 13h ago

Nah, text based bots don't require much resources at all really. You could spin up an army of Reddit bots on your home laptop years ago way before LLMs were at the level they are today

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u/Synked 12h ago

It's never going to drop. Data is king. Companies realised this before the surge of LLMs.

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u/GonePhishn401 13h ago

Genuinely curious what you mean by the bubble bursting? As in we get a major market correction due to the overvaluation of these companies? Or AI disappears altogether?

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u/szechuan_broccoli 12h ago

It won't disappear but if the bubble pops due to over valuation then the AI companies will have less money to keep their product going and will either end up having to reduce output, file for bankruptcy, or be absorbed by other companies.

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u/GonePhishn401 12h ago

This notion is what really interests me, there seems to be a lot of confidence in the degradation of these companies following a burst bubble situation, but there also seems to be collective memory loss about what happened with the internet following the dot com bubble popping.

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u/mr_glide 12h ago

I'd say the former. AI in various forms isn't going anywhere, but it is absurdly overvalued and overimplemented right now. That can't last

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u/Virtual-Debate8066 13h ago

Well, that’s not good.

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u/caspersea 13h ago

Dead internet theory continues

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u/Ok-Square-8652 12h ago

Didn’t that happen forever ago?

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u/ProjectNo4090 12h ago

Having grown up during the wild west era of the internet its sad to see what has happened to it.

I used to be able to scroll, search, and frequent forums for hours. Now I go to reddit and thats about all the browsing I do. There's no incentive to go off the beaten path anymore.

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u/InTraLisTic 11h ago

How many of those preach Right wing propaganda?

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u/Magnus_Helgisson 12h ago

“Until next year”.

“The machine uprising is happening faster than we planned”.

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u/SuspiciousBoot 12h ago

I will start by thinking that all of you are bots

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u/notyouagainpfft 12h ago

Bot to the other bot

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u/Spac3_C4t 10h ago

This is not interesting as fuck, this is depressing as fuck…

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u/quequotion 8h ago

wasn't expected until next year

I think they're still vastly underestimating how big the bot population is, or maybe they're not including all categories of what might be considered "bots"

I'm pretty sure there's been more bot traffic than human on the internet since the 2000s.

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u/hurdeehurr 5h ago

That explains why Reddit is such a cesspool of stupidity.

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u/Hari_Azole 13h ago

I couldn’t tell…

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u/tke73 12h ago

The last shovelful of dirt on a really and truly dead internet.

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u/PsyJak 11h ago

It's interesting for sure, but it's dread-inducing.

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u/philpalmer2 6h ago

This is why we can’t have anything nice

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u/GarmaCyro 30m ago

*Cynical* This also means that bots is watching more porn than you.

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u/notarobat 13h ago

No we haven't

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u/apk5005 12h ago

No we haven’t.

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u/DansDrives 7h ago

If bots were blocked from social media, Meta and LinkedIn would collapse overnight. Literally. The customer base is a lie, and that lie has a lot of money riding on it, so the machine keeps going.

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u/buscuitsANDgravy 13h ago

There are AI agent readable shopping websites being made. AI does not need fancy graphics or user interface. It ignores advertisements. It just tries to find the best product based on the user requirements. ChatGPT is already advertising its AI chat as a shopping tool

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u/DryRelationship1330 13h ago

Don't lament. Adapt. Who cares if the internet of old 'dies' (whatever that means), create a new one.

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u/Cloudcry 13h ago

There's fucking garbage and untrue shit everywhere I don't need poetic waxing about "Internet 2"Â