Bots Have Taken Over Nearly Half the Internet

Encountering an online robot, or bot, is as frequent as discovering a pair of shoes in your closet.

This occurrence is intrinsic to the internet, yet users have reached a crucial juncture: A growing multitude of individuals are losing their capacity to differentiate between bots and humans.

This is a circumstance that developers have cautioned about for an extended period, and its rationale is easily comprehensible.

A recent study has determined that bot-generated content now constitutes 47 percent of all internet traffic, marking an uptick of over 5 percent from 2021 to 2022. Concurrently, human activity on the internet has recently hit its lowest point in an eight-year span.

Combined with advancements in AI-driven human-like interactions, nearly one-third of internet users are no longer able to ascertain if they're engaging with a human being.

In the month of April, a groundbreaking research initiative (read below) named "Human or Not?" was initiated to establish ...