Bots now account for half of global internet traffic and 'bad bots' nearly one third

Discussion in 'Security in a World with AI' started by emmjay, Apr 19, 2024.

  1. emmjay

    emmjay Registered Member

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    https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai...ternet-traffic-and-bad-bots-nearly-one-third/
     
  2. xxJackxx

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    Bots and spam have been the majority of internet traffic since the beginning. It's always gonna be that way.
     
  3. Rasheed187

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    I honestly didn't know about this, and it's also not clear what the object of these malicious bots are. I do know that it's very annoying when you have to solve CAPTCHA puzzles. There should be better ways to identify bots.
     
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    Facebook post about Claude AI bot and Mint forum
     
  5. xxJackxx

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    Anything they can get into. They hammer our web server constantly. Forget opening any other ports. We had an online SQL Server and RDP server when I started here. There were hundreds of open connections to each trying to log in. I had to take them offline.
     
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