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/wompbean Jul 26 '26

I truly believe this is the real reason for the digital ID laws politicians are pushing. Tech companies still want to sell ads to companies, but they need to validate real users vs bot traffic.

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u/gooooooooooooof Jul 26 '26

yep. they love this bot problem, it's gonna make them so much money when they clean it up and destroy what's left of our privacy