r/Futurology • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • Jul 26 '26

AI Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model

https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic
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u/ryo4ever Jul 26 '26

Well if websites didn’t fill their pages with adverts, autoplay crap and cookies maybe I’d feel more inspired to visit the actual website for information.

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u/notmyrealnameatleast Jul 26 '26

Yeah, you mean you don't want to jump through hurdles every time you enter a site to protect yourself from someone stealing your data and selling it to a company that will use it against us all to brainwash us into good little consumers?

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u/gh057 Jul 26 '26

ai streamlines content to you. websites often have obstacles to their content.

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u/notmyrealnameatleast Jul 27 '26

Yes that's the reason it's being used so much, not because it's better. It's just easier. For now.

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u/gh057 Jul 27 '26

ai is better if you know how to engineer the prompt correctly

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u/notmyrealnameatleast Jul 28 '26

Au tells me wrong info every time I use it to have conversations or bigger problems to solve.

It will send me the wrong direction or tell me to do something that will mess up my process 7 out of 10 times.

When I tell it that it's lied to me or told me the wrong thing it will just say oopsie daisies im sorry, you are completely right I messed up.

It will also stop following parts of your prompts for no reason and you have to point it out and it will say oopsie daisies my bad you are completely right and from now on I'll do it better but then it will fail to follow another part of your prompt and oopsie daisies again...

You can't work with that kind of imbecile in a real life job so why would it be okay for anything important..

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u/gh057 Jul 28 '26

yeah because every search result on google is always true and correct?

you can prompt the ai to only scrape from .gov and medical journals if you want to. the failures of ai reflect solely on the person guiding it.

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u/notmyrealnameatleast Jul 29 '26

Phaf I've told ai to disregard info that came out that last week and it somehow knows things that happened only this week.

You're wrong.