So here’s the question: if more machines are reading the internet than people, what exactly are we writing for?

Is it still worth writing for an internet increasingly dominated by machines, or should I simply accept my fate and quietly disappear into oblivion?

https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/who-are-we-writing-for-now?r=1qy42b&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

How on earth did I miss that? Apparently #AI bots aren’t just your readers now, they want to be your friends.

How many friends do you need? Two, Three? Please. Zuckerberg, the Friendship Oracle, says you need at least 15. Luckily, #Facebook will happily supply them.

You have to stay on Facebook of course, which is bad for you, but good for Zuck.

But hey, with your new chatbox buddies to complain to, who cares if your personal data is being harvested for ad metrics.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/mark-zuckerberg-says-ai-can-replace-human-relationshipsexpert-disagrees.html?utm_campaign=cory-doctorow-hell-is-other-people-so-billionaires-are-using-ai-to-replace-them&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=www.thenerve.news

@Climatehistories

It's AOL #EternalSeptember all over again

@Climatehistories read the Cloudflare data.

Their CEO is lying to you.

Don't confuse the numbers.

"The actual data shows search crawlers are the largest bot category by a factor of two, the AI number is padded by counting Googlebot twice, the AI traffic that does exist is mostly training scrapers, and the agentic category Prince points to as the cause is the smallest bucket in his own company’s classification. His 'agentic' increase press release is disproven by his dataset."

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/cloudflare-ceo-is-lying-to-you-about-the-bot-traffic-jump/