For as long as I've been alive, there have been bots of one kind or another on the internet. Whether it's WoW gold bots, email spammers, SmarterChild (remember SmarterChild?), or something else, this glorious world wide web has been home to rickety, virtual facsimiles of human beings trying to wheedle money out of you for decades.
But now it's even worse. With the power of AI™ (not actually ™) we've successfully made the internet much worse for everyone, with social media, website comments sections, your email, various of your news outlets, even your YouTube videos now potentially being produced by a gaggle of hallucinating graphics cards. There's even the dead internet theory, the suggestion that—at this point—the internet is for the most part just a load of bots regurgitating content at each other.
