Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ - eviltoast
Sites such as Twitter/X have been overrun by automated accounts
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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report – as some fear that the internet is dying.

    It suggests that much of the content online is in fact automatically generated, and that the number of humans on the web is dwindling in comparison with bot accounts.

    Some of that rise is the result of the adoption of generative artificial intelligence and large language models.

    Companies that build those systems use bots scrape the internet and gather data that can then be used to train them.

    Popular posts on the site are now hit by a huge number of comments from accounts advertising pornography, and the company appears to be struggling to limit them.

    Recently, its owner Elon Musk said that the site would start charging users to send posts and interact with others.

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