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Humans now share the web equally with bots


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

Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report – as some fear that the internet is dying. 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. Popular posts on the site are now hit by a huge number of comments from accounts advertising pornography, and the company appears to be struggling to limit them.

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