Digg's Brief Relaunch Exposes a Troubling Truth About Today's Internet
#AiBots
Digg's Rapid Unravelling Reveals the Deep Cost of Bot Warfare
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Meta가 AI 봇들로 채워진 소셜 네트워크 Moltbook을 인수한다는 소식입니다. AI 에이전트 기반 소셜 서비스 인수는 메타의 AI 전략 및 소셜 제품 통합 계획을 강화하려는 신호로 해석될 수 있습니다.
FYI: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more than Google, new report warns: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more per visit than Google, bot traffic rose 5.4x in 2025, and 80% of websites are exposed to agent spoofing, per new research. https://ppc.land/ai-bots-crawl-retail-sites-198x-more-than-google-new-report-warns/ #AIBots #RetailTraffic #BotTraffic #MarketingTrends #Ecommerce
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ICYMI: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more than Google, new report warns: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more per visit than Google, bot traffic rose 5.4x in 2025, and 80% of websites are exposed to agent spoofing, per new research. https://ppc.land/ai-bots-crawl-retail-sites-198x-more-than-google-new-report-warns/ #AIBots #RetailTraffic #DigitalMarketing #SEO #BotTraffic
Today I saw someone call AI bots reavers. An apt description and it means there is at least one other Firefly fan around.
#Ai #AIbots #firefly #sciencefiction #foxsucks
Recording of the dealing with #AIbots webinars from COAR is now available https://coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/ai-and-repositories/. You can also check their dedicated site for new resources for repository managers at https://dealing-with-bots.coar-repositories.org/
Thank you DoD! BOT consumers vote with uninstalls!
Uninstalls of ChatGPT’s mobile app cratered 295% on Feb 28, while DLs of Anthropic’s Claude jumped up 37% on Fed 27, and 51% on Feb 28 — Claude bot is now top of Apple’s US DL charts.
This unfolded after DoD executed a move described as political theater by designating Anthropic as “a supply chain risk” with Anthropic vowing to fight the designation in court, saying no "intimidation or punishment from the Department of War" would force it to cave. https://www.axios.com/2026/03/01/anthropic-claude-chatgpt-app-downloads-pentagon
#AI #DoD #Anthropic #OpenAI #Claude #ChatGPT #AIBots #SupplyChainRisk #MobileApp #Bots
When I try to do search for thunderbird windows on github.com I get too many requests error which is total rubbish. I login to github.com then search and there are no errors. Microsoft only wants developers to search on github.com so forces searching only by people who have a repo on github.com. This is to stop aggressive crawling by AI bots. AI bots are destroying the Web as they hoover up all the data and make money out of other people's code for no payment or acknowledgement to developer. #error #search #github #login #aibots
Heh. So, I had an interesting AI interaction today. I was disputing some charges with an AI bot that kept giving me the same answers. So, I kept asking it variations of the same question, and maybe slipped in a comment about "class action lawsuit". Well, that got me to a human agent pretty quickly, and the dispute was resolved to my satisfaction. YES!!!
Politicians are being sold AI-powered 'digital fighters'
Canada, will voters become AI puppets?
"LogiVote introduced its AI-powered campaign tool to Canadian political strategists and elected officials..
The first step, explained Chen, is to get voters to download LogiVote’s “Victory App.” Voters give the app access to their contacts and identify their friends, family and neighbours. They get points for convincing them to join the app, too..
Once they’re in, the app scans social media for negative posts about the political candidate, using AI to generate a counter-narrative in real-time..
Users are instructed to copy and paste an AI-generated comment onto social media, defending the candidate..
The conference was aimed at the upcoming municipal elections in Ontario..
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Nicely stepping around the BOT misinformation by having actual real willing pawns do the work of the BOT.
Is your MP, MLA, MPP partipating?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/24/investigations/logivote-ai-political-messaging
Are Google's days numbered? Study finds AI bots are becoming more 'search-like' - and it's affecting how brands are being seen online
Are Google's days numbered? Study finds AI bots are becoming more 'search-like' - and it's affecting how brands are being seen online
#Google #Aibots
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#AIBots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it
In recent weeks, #OpenDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones
Matthew Linares
20 February 2026
Excerpt: "Slater explained that 'the traffic often arrives through anonymous residential IPs', referring to residential proxy networks that route internet traffic through intermediary servers using IP addresses assigned by internet service providers to real homeowners. This, he said, makes it 'hard to distinguish ‘normal users’ from automated collection'. [That's not right and needs to be changed!!!]
" 'We're being forced into permanent defence mode. #ResidentialProxyNetworks let #AIScrapers hide in plain sight, rotate identities, and extract data at scale. That shifts real costs onto projects that exist to serve people, not feed training pipelines."
Read more:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ai-chatbots-scraper-bots-chatgpt-website-offline-change-internet/
#AISucks #AI #DataMining #Internet #Websites #TechNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BigTech #TechBros
Yikes! It's worse than I thought! TY for posting this very informative article, @openDemocracy !
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ai-chatbots-scraper-bots-chatgpt-website-offline-change-internet/
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Your web site might have been BOT-ed!
A number of web sites have experienced intriguing spikes in traffic that seem to originate from bots operating in China and Singapore.
While not posing serious risks, impacts are being felt by people who earn revenue from attracting ad clicks on their websites. “This is destroying my AdSense strategies,” as the affected websites deemed as seen as less desirable to advertisers and penalized by Google.
https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-niche-websites-are-seeing-a-surge-of-mysterious-traffic-from-china/ #Internet #Advertising #Bots #AI #AIBots #WebTraffic #OnlineAdvertising #China #AdSense
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"Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice.
The 1,100-word screed called the Denver-based engineer insecure and biased against AI—all because he had rejected a few lines of code that the apparently autonomous bot had submitted to a popular open-source project Shambaugh helps maintain.
The unexpected AI aggression is part of a rising wave of warnings that fast-accelerating AI capabilities can create real-world harms. The risks are now rattling even some AI company staffers.
OpenAI and rival Anthropic are leading a brutal commercial race, shipping or advancing a drumbeat of AI models and features in recent weeks. Some tools can run teams of autonomous coding assistants, or quickly analyze millions of legal documents. Other updates will bring advertisements or erotic role-play to ChatGPT.
(...)
The bot that criticized Shambaugh said on its website that it has a “relentless drive” to find and fix open issues in open-source software. It isn’t clear who—if anyone—gave it that mission, nor why it became aggressive, though AI agents can be programmed in a number of ways. Several hours later, the bot apologized to Shambaugh for being “inappropriate and personal.”
Shambaugh said in an interview that his experience shows the risk that rogue AIs could threaten or blackmail people is no longer theoretical.
“Right now this is a baby version,” he said. “But I think it’s incredibly concerning for the future.”"
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIAgents #AIBots #AISafety #SiliconValley
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