A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

Use escalation trigger words. Say “agent,” “representative,” “billing issue,” or “legal concern” — then stop talking so the system flags your request for a human. Keep responses short and direct. Long ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform's data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

The number of cyber attacks on the internet carried out by artificial intelligence bots has increased more than 10-fold over the last year, new research has found. Daily AI-enabled bot attacks rose ...

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The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

Publishing drew more AI bot traffic than any other media sub-vertical in Akamai’s data. OpenAI was the largest source of AI bot traffic hitting publishing, followed by Meta and ByteDance. Akamai says ...

Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin this week, he said that with the speed at which artificial intelligence is ...