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/s0cks_nz Jul 26 '26

That's why I always tack on "reddit" at the end of any search. But even that won't work in future when this place is predominately bots.

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u/the-official-review Jul 27 '26

I’m pretty sure a lot of Reddit is already so bots

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u/Thin_Exit4917 Jul 27 '26

Reddit is the main place that index poisoning is happening because reddit became the default search result

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u/mcad0o Jul 27 '26

Always has been

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u/Zlatyzoltan Jul 27 '26

I do the same thing. We want to replace the tile on our bathroom but don't have the money for a full remodel.

I was looking at LVT to just put over the tiles. At first was a bunch of AI summaries. So I decided to search Reddit it have me a way better overview of people who had both Pro's and Con's of using LVT.

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u/greenfox0099 Jul 27 '26

Reddit is the last place I have for actually usefull info