AI bot traffic to websites is rising rapidly. It could change the nature of the web

What happens when AI bot traffic starts to catch up with human visitors?

Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform ...

AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic

New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.

Moltbook is the newest social media platform — but it's just for AI bots

A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions ...
Business Insider

Anthropic bot crawlers feast on web content and give little back, a new ranking shows

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A new social media platform creates buzz – but it's just for AI bots

A new social media platform launched last week and it's got Silicon Valley buzzing, but it's not for humans. Moltbook is a platform for AI agents to talk to other AI agents.
TechCrunch

Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization ...