The report found that bot attacks increased by 167 percent in the first half of the year, with a staggering 291 percent increase in intelligent bots.

New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

  • JDubbleu@programming.devEnglish
    0·
    11 months ago

    I really hate the phrase “bots” because it gives the appearance that they’re all useless and malicious. I guarantee you they lumped in the following extremely valid uses of “bots”:

    • Automated personal scripts that many programmers use, these are technically bots. Hell, I use a “bot” to auto-clip digital Safeway coupons
    • Moderation bots on sites like Lemmy/Reddit
    • Archive efforts

    Are AI chatbots bots? If they use a loose enough definition all this means is humans utilize fuck tons of automation over the Internet, both programmers and not.

      • Decoy321@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        They go, “hey bot, would you please clip me some Safeway coupons?”

        Then the bot goes and gets their little bot scissors and their bot newspaper, then clips up some coupons and hands them to OP.

        It’s a pretty endearing sight.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          11 months ago

          Then the bot goes and gets their little bot scissors

          But digitally.

          and their bot newspaper,

          But digitally.

          then clips up some coupons

          But digitally.

          and hands them to OP.

          But digitally.

          They said we’d all be living in a VR world by now back in the 90s!