General Article Humans now share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of the ‘dead internet’

Topic Selected: Digital World Book Volume: 459

Sites such as Twitter/X have been overrun by automated accounts.

By Andrew Griffin

Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report – as some fear that the internet is dying.

In recent months, the so-called ‘dead internet theory’ has gained new popularity. It suggests that much of the content online is in fact automatically generated, and that the number of humans on the web is dwindling in comparison with bot accounts.

Now a new report from cyber security company I...

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