49.6% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2023, a 2% increase over the previous year, and the highest level Imperva has reported since it began monitoring automated traffic in 2013. For the fifth consecutive year, the proportion of web traffic associated with bad bots grew to 32% in 2023, up from 30.2% in 2022, while traffic from human users decreased to 50.4%. Automated traffic is costing organizations billions (USD) annually due to attacks … More →
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Thinking about starting some kind of anti nazi LLM bot. The purpose wouldn’t actually be to spread propaganda, but rather to just let it argue with all the nazi bots. It would kind of make the internet even worse, but I’m legit so tired of Meta, Twitter, Reddit etc. not doing enough against hate speech and fascist propaganda. My only concern is that it would definitely also harass people who actually make sense and who are against Nazis, but the bot would be too stupid to understand.