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AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel
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Dr Pen**Bots Now Make Up Nearly Half of All Internet Traffic Globally**
#bots #deathoftheinternet #nonhuman
https://www.imperva.com/company/press_releases/bots-make-up-half-of-all-internet-traffic-globally/
Bots Now Make Up Nearly Half of All Internet Traffic Globally - Company
Automated and malicious traffic rises for a fifth consecutive year Bad bots account for 32% of all internet traffic 44% of all account takeover attacks target API endpoints Thales, the cybersecurity leader that protects critical applications, APIs, and data, anywhere at scale, today announced the release of the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report, a global [β¦]
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https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=PaVjQFMg7L0
Sorry Kyle, but the hole is deeper. What killed the kirky internet that we loved was not AI. That was just the last nail in the coffin. What actually caused it was sheer greed enabled by ineffective, corrupt and ignorant public officers who were either just complacent or downright accomplices.
Thankfully, some of it still lives in the #fediverse
How A.I. Killed the Internet.
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GwynThis is an eye-opener! We can thank a man named Prabhakar Raghavan for killing both Yahoo Search and Google Search, while somehow managing to maintain his anonymity - until now.
Musk and Zuckerberg are names we know so well for destroying our experience of the Internet, and here's another name to curse.
Also, I just learnt where the current CEO of Google came from and hoooooly shit.
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story