The Dead Internet Theory at Full Scale - Overrun By AI

Just saw this. Not sure the numbers of the downsize but the announcement makes it seem significant. “Within hours, we got a taste of what we'd only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough.” submitted by /u/TGS_Holdings [link] [comments.