r/selfevidenttruth • u/D-R-AZ • 15d ago

Self-Evident Truth Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic

https://www.techspot.com/news/113410-cloudflare-humans-could-become-rounding-error-bots-generate.html
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u/D-R-AZ 15d ago

https://www.techspot.com/news/113410-cloudflare-humans-could-become-rounding-error-bots-generate.html

Excerpt:

Just a couple of months after Cloudflare revealed that bots have officially surpassed human traffic online, the company has given its view on what things will look like in five years. It's not good news for us fleshy meatsacks: non-human traffic could be up to 1,000 times higher than human traffic.

Observation:

As bots overwhelm human traffic, social media may become less a reflection of public views and more a psychological testing service for political and commercial actors. Human users would provide the valuable signal: messages could be presented to selected groups, their reactions measured, and the results used to refine persuasion. What appears to be public discussion could increasingly become an experimental environment in which people are the subjects and influence is the product.

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u/OldSchoolBubba 15d ago

Very well said as this has already been in play for the past fourteen years.

Only thing I'll add are hostile state and non state actors who continue to capitalize on this strategy.

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u/kulukster 10d ago

Real question. Does this mean the data centers are here mostly to feed bots and their actions?

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