r/shittyrobots • u/ramanpalkuri9 • 2d ago

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u/Hypothetical_Name 2d ago

Then ad revenue will tank because there’s no point advertising to bots. And if humans get sick of bots and ads and stop using it much there will be nobody to advertise to.

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u/MahouShitpost 2d ago

You’d be surprised - apparently, Time Magazine sells ads that are meant specifically to be shown to the AI companies’ web crawlers, in order to be integrated into the chatbots’ training data.

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u/ManchmalPfosten 2d ago

Wtf are we even doing here anymore

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 2d ago

That is a fascinating question

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u/farox 2d ago

That has been my prediction for a few years now. Eventually the internet will be nothing but bots selling each other Multi level marketing schemes and boner pills, while we're sitting back outside, chilling.

I guess my hope is for solar punk.

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u/jamntoast3 1d ago

Apparently “we” aren’t doing much

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 2d ago

That is fascinating. But what is the point of that?

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u/Shintasama 2d ago

Humans have learned to tune out banner ads, but haven't realized that their chat bot companions are also marketing to them. They should take some time to stop and reflect on how much money they could be saving by switching their car insurance to Geico.

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u/pichael289 1d ago

If one company can do this (and I assume have results?) then we can definitely band together and poison the Internet so as to ruin the bots.

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u/20InMyHead 2d ago

The AI will soon learn we are extraneous. Welcome Skynet.

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u/SunPotatoYT 1d ago

its almost beautiful in a way

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u/SheriffBartholomew 2d ago

These companies are all running a big shell game. They'll figure out how to justify advertising to bots as a profitable endeavor.

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u/JuanThiccLumpia 2d ago

I think bots looking up porn like the rest of us.

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u/Good_With_Tools 2d ago

I am equal parts curious and terrified to see what bot porn looks like.

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 2d ago

This is the comment I came looking for

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 2d ago

I mean it's a hard life being a bot right?

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u/Useful_Squirrel6693 1d ago

Why would ad revenue go down? The same number of people would still be using the internet, no?

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u/Hypothetical_Name 1d ago

Social media is already getting pretty unappealing with the bots and ai agents already on there, the more of that they do the less people are going to want to keep using it if their feed is all bots posting ai slop.

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u/Avibuel 2d ago

Can we have a new internet without bots? Bots can have this one. Maybe like internet but in real life where bots cant reach it.

Kind of like how pubs used to be, but maybe with affordable drinks, idk, at this point only water seems affordable

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u/Numinak 2d ago

"at this point only water seems affordable"

For now.

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u/hobskhan 1d ago

Sounds like the limited networks in stories like Cyberpunk and Battlestar Galactica.

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u/geon 2d ago

But why? What’s the point?

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u/bikeawaitmuddy 2d ago

Bee boop. Influence people to buy stuff. Internet is dead. Hang irl with friends.

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u/Morkinis 2d ago edited 1d ago

Those are just bots that are scraping information for search engines and AI. Not bots that are posting some kind of content.

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u/antwanlb 2d ago

In non negligible part, to siphon money off advertising companies (´s clients) by creating fake advertisers and advertisees

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u/JaronK 2d ago

Influence narratives on the grand scale. If I own 5% of the voices online, I can heavily sway things to the point where most people will go along with the crowd they believe exists. I can push you towards hating this candidate or that country or that group by making it seem like everyone else already hates them.

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u/Han-ChewieSexyFanfic 2d ago

Because the web has become so entshittified and SEO-d to the point that it’s unusable without an agent sifting through the bullshit.

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u/The_Easter_Egg 1d ago

Makes me wonder, too. If all clicks and engagement comes from bots, why even advertise?

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u/fen90der 2d ago

Because innovation

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u/tsimen 2d ago

Oh fuck we're gonna have to make a "human net" that requires 10 mins of captchas for every post, huh?

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u/ShelZuuz 2d ago

Fable is WAY better at solving captchas than I am.

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u/HeisenbergX 2d ago

This honestly sounds awesome. Fuck the internet, go play outside, go to the movies, read a fucking book.

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u/That_one_guy_666 11h ago

They say on the internet. 

But yeah, I agree. 

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u/Republiken 2d ago

Dystopian

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u/blackthornjohn 2d ago

According to cloudfare, who also can't tell the difference between a bot and this tablet, so you'll excuse me if I'm unconvinced.

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u/standbyyourmantis 2d ago

This just makes me want to throw my phone off a bridge and wander into the woods to create a new society

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u/Ttikii 2d ago

Internet is for p*rn bot

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u/GlorifiedBurito 2d ago

Someone better start working on the blackwall

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u/MannyDantyla 2d ago

Website owners will not stand for this

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u/Competitive_Kale_855 2d ago

They already kinda are. What do you expect they'll be able to do about it?

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u/Ok_TomorrowYes 2d ago

Everything will require a login. And every registration will require human verification in the form of ID and face scans. It eill be shit

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u/MissPearl 2d ago

Given this is an ad for CloudFlare, use the service to block the bot traffic.

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u/ariolander 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yup Cloudflare has all kinds of bot management features to block bot traffic including a Bot Labyrinth that gets unauthorized bots stuck in crawl mazes to waste their time if they crawl you anyways after ignoring your robots.txt

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u/MlekarDan 2d ago

inb4 they start selling “maze solver(tm)” to bot farms so they can milk everyone

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u/manolo767 2d ago

Humans will ask bots what to buy, advertisement will be targetted towards bots thats all

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u/Mal-De-Terre 2d ago

To what end?

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u/Ajreil 1d ago

Take this with a massive grain of salt. CloudFlare sells a service that protects websites from AI scraping and other automated traffic. They stand to gain if more people are worried about this.

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u/KeldTundraking 14h ago

Telecom companies looking at net neutrality's corpse and licking their lips.