Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

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SiliconANGLE

Report finds bad bots accounted for 32% of all internet traffic in 2023

A new report released today by Thales SA had found that bot traffic now makes up nearly half of all internet traffic globally and that bad bots account for a significant number of those bots. The ...
Business Wire

Bots Now Make Up Nearly Half of All Internet Traffic Globally

Automated and malicious traffic rises for a fifth consecutive year MEUDON, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thales, the cybersecurity leader that protects critical applications, APIs, and data, anywhere at ...
SiliconANGLE

Barracuda report reveals 50% of all internet traffic is bot-driven

A new report released today by cloud cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks Inc. finds that half of all internet traffic is now bot traffic and that bad bots contribute to 30% of traffic. The report ...

The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows

First surfacing in 2021, the “dead internet theory” is the idea that the future internet will be largely driven by autonomous ...
PC Gamer

Bots now account for half of global internet traffic and 'bad bots' nearly one third

Chalk this up as further evidence of the impending demise of civilisation, along with the climate, large language models and the increasingly ubiquitous implementation of the Oxford comma. Now it's ...
eTeknix

Bots Dominate Nearly Half of Internet Traffic, Major Security Concerns Arise

A new report highlights a significant rise in bot traffic on the internet, with almost half of all activity now attributed to these automated systems. The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report reveals that 49.6 ...
TweakTown

Study finds nearly half of the internet's traffic is 'high-risk' bots

Akamai has published a new 2024 report on web traffic and found that 42% of all traffic is generated by bots, and considerable percentages of these bots in sub-sections of the internet are "high risk" ...
CNET

There's an Online Community That Believes the Internet Died in 2016. Here's How AI Fits Into the Picture

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...
TechSpot

Malicious bots make up nearly three-quarters of Internet traffic

In brief: Automated bots are a dime a dozen on the modern Internet, performing a variety of tasks ranging from helpful to harmful. What you may not realize is just how prolific bad bots are, and how ...
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The AI boom is now bigger than the ’90s dotcom bubble—and it’s built on the backs of bots, maybe more than real users

We’ve all had that uncanny moment when we realize we’ve been talking to “someone” online when we realize it’s a robot responding. Long before the release of ChatGPT mainstreamed the act of talking to ...
Digital Journal

Heavy traffic: Beware the rise of the Internet bot

Investors have been spooked by the arrival of DeepSeek's chatbot, sparking a rout in high-flying tech titans - Copyright AFP GREG BAKER Investors have been spooked by ...