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Bots Have Taken Over Nearly Half The Internet, But One-Third Of Users Can't Tell Difference

• Art of Liberty Daily News

It's a fundamental part of the internet, but users have hit a critical tipping point: An increasing number of people are losing the ability to distinguish between bots and humans. It's a scenario developers have warned about for years, and it's easy to see why. A recent study concluded 47 percent of all internet traffic is now comprised of bot-generated content. That's an increase of more than 5 percent between 2022 and 2021. Concurrently, human activity on the internet just hit its lowest point in eight years. Coupled with advances in human-like exchanges driven by artificial intelligence (AI), almost a third of internet users can't tell if they're interacting with a person any more. In April, a landmark study called "Human or Not?" was launched to determine whether people could identify if they were talking to another person or an AI chatbot. More than 2 million volunteers and 15 million conversations later, 32 percent of participants picked incorrectly. There was a


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