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Artificial Intelligence Fuels Rise of Hard-to-Detect Bots That Now Make up More Than Half of Global Internet Traffic (www.businesswire.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Pro@mander.xyz to c/Technology@programming.dev

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Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale

For the first time in a decade, automated traffic surpassed human activity, accounting for 51% of all web traffic

API-directed attacks surged to 44% of advanced bot traffic, with the travel sector topping the list for bot attacks overall

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The internet has turned into a wasteland of slop in no time flat. If you use any of the major search engines to try to find information on something, you can only count on a small handful of sites in the results giving you actual human articles and discourse. Even engines that used to position themselves as being the more organic and friendly choice (I'm looking at you DDG, you're fucking worthless now.)