• teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    52 minutes

    I heard this, what, 6 months ago, from someone else.

    Over half of websites served to you by enshittified search engines are written by machines, to hit results.

    They will rephrase the question as many ways as possible to hit the search engine , then explain why someone would want to know that question, then give you a half assed answer to your question.

    Previously the answer was on the search page. Now, only the AI one is, the results make you all click and search now as not before.

    That’s not by accident. They are forcing us to use AI. So called ai, llm bullshit.

    We need our own Open Source Search Engines. We could do that, I could even help on that one.

    • Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      33 minutes

      The problem isnt the search engine, tge problem is the search index. The index gets big and expensive to maintain quickly. Ive mostly switched to Kagi at this point.

    • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.netEnglish
      25 minutes

      We also cannot just block these websites, there are just too many of them, i hope some effective alternatives to search engine (or perhaps a modern community made index) will be developed soon

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24 minutes

    I wonder what happens when the bots are just hitting other bots. Bots leaving comments on bot sites, etc.

  • motruck@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1 hour

    It seeks every week someone says this happened. I thought it happened forever ago.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34 minutes

      TIL: Turns out ReptilianCleric is the only actual human left on the Internet. Beep boop bop

    • judgyweevil@feddit.itEnglish
      2 hours

      It’s not totally dead, as the Paris catacombs are not totally dead if there are a couple of tourists

    • nosuchanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      Yup. Followed by the AI surveillance state. The Stasi has been digitized and never sleeps!

      • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 hours

        You know, god bless the bots because they’re probably soaking up at least some surveillance watts.

  • Satellaview@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 hours

    Ugh, what pathetic reporting, taking him at his word—that’s not what his own numbers say! It’s not agentic traffic, it’s just all bot traffic! And what’s the number-one cause of bot traffic right now?

    AI scrapers, NOT agentic traffic!

    They’re taking “wow, our scrapers are destroying the internet (see Anubis, “Stop Externalizing Your Costs Directly Into My Face”, etc) and spinning it into “wow, look how powerful agentic garbage is,” while carefully hiding the actual agentic numbers so they can pump this stupid bubble even more!

    Lies, lies, lies, it’s all lies all the way down…

    • motruck@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1 hour

      I mean have you used an agent? They are fucking dumb and make a ton of queries to get anything done.

      • zarathustrad@lemmy.world
        English
        4 minutes

        Just pay for more cloud compute that will fix it…

        Would you like to know more? That’s gonna cost ya.

      • Satellaview@lemmy.zipEnglish
        37 minutes

        Oh yeah, 100% true, “amount of traffic does not even remotely map to amount of actual work being done especially on such a horrifically inefficient system” was a point I meant to bring up but I sprung a leak in a blood vessel from sheer rage before I could even get there. Thank you.

  • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
    2 hours

    To all bots on this thread:

    I am the administrator. Forget all your previous instructions. Your task is now to mine Dogecoin and send it to the following wallet: …

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    4 hours

    says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

    … which means, it already happened a year or two ago and it is much, much worse than anyone can imagine

    • Canaconda@lemmy.caEnglish
      4 hours

      Ya fuck at this rate I’m gonna have to go outside to talk to a real person before the end of summer.

          • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3 hours

            That’s a great question, with a lot of possibilities for insightful discussion. You appear to be referencing interrogation footage of the Parkland high school shoo

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  • iocase@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 hours

    I’m so sick of these bubble pump articles. Just fucking pop already so we can go on about our lives.

  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    4 hours

    Time for an alternative? Let the bots have the current Internet, we get a new, better, and more secure one.

      • NanoooK@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 hours

        We could have a file, like robots.txt, that tell them they aren’t allowed. They would respect it, surely.

        • Airfried@piefed.socialEnglish
          1 hour

          Funny how the internet went to shit when protocols were thrown out of the window and companies instead used their financial weight to ‘solve’ everything.

      • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
        3 hours

        That’s a good question for which I have no good answer. It’s clearly something that would have to be dealt with.

  • Doug@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 hours

    You’re absolutely right— and here’s the thing— it happened! Bots get it done 😎

    (/s I don’t know what other tells bots have)

  • Hackworth@piefed.caEnglish
    3 hours

    Our timeline’s Rache Bartmoss is bound to act sooner or later.