Do you ever get the feeling like you could be interacting with an AI or perhaps the number of likes on a post seems way too inaccurate? 64% of internet traffic in 2021 came from bots so let’s talk about what that means and what the future holds.
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Do you ever get the feeling like you could be interacting with an AI or perhaps the number of likes on a post seems way too inaccurate? 64% of internet traffic in 2021 came from bots so let’s talk about what that means and what the future holds.
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What is bot traffic and why does it matter? - https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/bots/what-is-bot-traffic/
Bot traffic could be anything from a fake social media account to a click farm to algorithmic trading, to fake web traffic, to malicious hackers. Bots can do a lot of things, but you’ll typically find them doing simple tasks like Facebook’s feed fetcher bot to pull previews for the feed. This bot alone makes up a huge portion of internet traffic and is an example of a good bot. But even in a way, a good bot can be bad because it can act in the wrong way or simply overwhelm smaller websites. Most bot traffic comes from Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure which are two massive public cloud systems.
There are several reasons why bot traffic is so important to recognize:
• The majority of trading is algorithmic and done by bots.
• The majority of trading volume on exchanges are made up by bots – Forbes reported as much as 93% on some exchanges in 2018
• Bots run the majority of moderation and censorship programs.
• Bots make up the majority of the internet – aka you don’t know what’s real since more is fake than real.
• The percent of bad bots are increasing.
• Bots can heavily influence and skew data to almost entirely negate the accuracy of online research studies, most notably in healthcare related studies.
• The perception of public consensus and sentiment online is completely fictional.
Do you think 64% of the internet is made up of bots? Do you think it will keep increasing? Have you ever not been sure if you were interacting with a bot? Let me know what you think about this in the comments below and don’t forget to subscribe!
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