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AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans (www.cnet.com)
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[–] 48 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Its interesting that we are rebranding conventional web scrapers and bots to "AI Agents"

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The article explicitly mentions that they're not talking about those kind of bots. They're talking about agentic bots, like the ones that search the internet when you ask a chatbot something.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    And the source is Cloudflare, who's business model depends on the existence of bots, scrapers, DDoSers, and AI agent nuissances

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Cloudflare isnt wrong.

    If you want another source: devkitpro and the *brew websites ( wiibrew, wiiubrew, 3dbrew, switchbrew ) have been having issues for more than a year now because ai bots and agents have been using terabytes and terabytes of bandwidth every month. We have slowly come to a moment where hosting mid-popular stuff requires cdn because nobody can handle that content on their own, let alone pay for it

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    • [+] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Biometric data can be copied. Which is usually one of the most important flaw of this form of authentication.

    If someone (or something) steals your biometric data, you cannot change it.

    I would be much more convinced by a cryptography based solution where you can create a token on some separate hardware device and have to give a secret PIN to authorize it's creation. Then that token would prove for a time that you are indeed a human. No AI can read your mind so I suppose that's the safest way to prove your human... Until your PIN gets stolen by an AI somehow...

    I hope most governments around the world will provide cryptographic certificates to their citizens to help them manage their online identity.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    This does already exist on a blockchain, but people hate shitcoins so it'll likely never take off until the tech gets subsumed into some centralised Web2 service. Account access by a human and an account with a bot that's been delegated access by a human have two different states being noted. A developer can implement a gate that requires a fresh physical unlock to get in.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Which is where I though the real use of nft 's would come in. Its a shame there just associated with crap generated images now

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I'm not sure to follow what an NFT would bring to the table to solve this problem. I think an AI could create a NFT just as well and pretend to be human.

    Also blockchains are usually pretty slow so minting a new NFT everytime you need to prove you are human would probably be unpractical.

    The more I think on this problem the more it looks challenging. Almost anything digital could be forged by an AI in some way.

    The only thing might be a problem only an human can reasonably solve and so it ends up like captchas. And captchas are notoriously weak to AI now.

    I'm not sure there is any easy way to identify a human from a machine. If there is a way it will almost always need the human to solve a complex problem everytime which will be very annoying.

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    • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Not on my site. Blocked all that shit.

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    [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    depressing... I thought the robocuck future would a least have some trains. All my life I have seen no human progress

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    • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    flying penguin blog post on why that's a lie

    it's only http traffic, not traffic in general, and it's AI crawlers from the big companies, not agents running on behalf mf users.

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    First spam, then unoptimized sites, then AI. Makes you wonder how fast things would really be without any of that.

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    dead internet theory intensifies

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    What exactly CAPTCHAs do? Stop humans?

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