by DenverHiker
A new report reveals that in 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year. The same report showed that human traffic, at 52.6%, decreased to its lowest level in eight years.
This week, Imperva released its 10th annual Bad Bot Report, a global analysis of automated bot traffic across the internet. The annual report provides security and business leaders with information about the evolution of bot technology and automated traffic. This year’s report also documents milestones in the evolution of bad bot technology.
For the fourth consecutive year, the volume of bad bot traffic — malicious automated software applications capable of high-speed abuse, misuse and attacks — grew to 30.2%, a 2.5% increase over 2021.
www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99339-47-of-all-internet-traffic-came-from-bots-in-2022
There are no or very few people on the internet and most of it is just bots.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
“The dead Internet theory is a theory that asserts that the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content, marginalizing human activity.[1][2][3] The date given for this “death” is generally around 2016 or 2017.[1][3]
In 2012, YouTube removed billions of video views from major record labels, such as Sony and Universal, as a result of discovering that they had used fraudulent services to artificially increase the views of their content. The removal of the inflated views aimed to restore credibility to the platform and improve the accuracy of view counts. The move by YouTube also signaled a change in the way the platform would tackle fake views and bot traffic.[4]
In 2023, the audio streaming platform Spotify.com removed tens of thousands of songs, corresponding to 7% of its catalogue, because they were AI-generated music from the online service Boomy, uploaded to be “listened” by bots and boost the streaming numbers of such songs, trying to generate revenues proportional to non-human access to the songs.[5]”
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