Think about the last time you sent a message online. There is a growing chance that a chatbot helped write it, and a growing chance that a chatbot on the other end read it too. This is not a joke anymore. Reports from 2026 show that bots now make up more than half of all web traffic. Some experts call this the dead internet theory, and it is starting to feel less like a conspiracy and more like a simple fact about how the internet works today.
