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Originally Posted by TomC
Thanks - what is the purpose of the bots - or more accurately - what is the objective of the human instigators of these attacks?
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Wikipedia article I linked to has a pretty good description of what the BOTs are up to. To me it looks like they are trying to register and post on comment boards, forums and other social media for purposes like placing ads, links and opinions. They now use AI to create posts. They have always been around but why they have become a flood is a mystery to me. I guess we'd have to ask the Chinese about it. It seems like they are encouraging BOT blocking by doing this. I read that about half of all internet traffic is now bots.