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		narrator on June 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Tu... This jives with "The Dead Internet Theory" which says that most of the internet is AI bots.

blacksmith_tb on June 2, 2021 [–]

I thought it was generally accepted that 40-50% of all traffic was bots[1]? Though since most of them are mindlessly scanning for WP vulns calling them "AI" is probably over-generous...

1: https://www.techradar.com/news/bot-traffic-reached-a-new-hig...

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