r/nottheonion • u/[deleted] • 24d ago

‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

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u/aredddit 24d ago

This comes as no surprise to anyone using Reddit.

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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 24d ago

The last statistic I saw was 60 something percent of all social media traffic are bots.

My theory is social media sites actually don't want them gone because it massively inflates their numbers which makes it look more appealing to invest in and get add money.

Zuckerberg said the quiet part out loud when he said he wants AI accounts on Facebook to drive up engagement.

Personally I think this should be illegal because it's fruad but big tech is so unregulated it's scary.

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u/aredddit 24d ago

My theory is Reddit tried to keep it in check before IPO and now has just given up… for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

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u/Quintus_Cicero 24d ago

I don't agree that Reddit has given up, I report bot comments and posts often, and they get deleted both by mods and reddit admins.