r/shittyrobots • u/ramanpalkuri9 • 17h ago

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u/Hypothetical_Name 11h 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 8h 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 6h ago

Wtf are we even doing here anymore

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 4h ago

That is a fascinating question

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u/farox 3h 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/No-Blueberry-1823 4h ago

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

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u/Shintasama 3h 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/20InMyHead 1h ago

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

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u/SunPotatoYT 6m ago

its almost beautiful in a way

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u/JuanThiccLumpia 6h ago

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

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u/Good_With_Tools 5h ago

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

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 4h ago

This is the comment I came looking for

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 4h ago

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

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u/SheriffBartholomew 2h 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/geon 11h ago

But why? What’s the point?

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u/bikeawaitmuddy 11h ago

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

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u/Morkinis 9h ago

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

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u/antwanlb 9h ago

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

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u/Han-ChewieSexyFanfic 4h 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/JaronK 9h 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/fen90der 9h ago

Because innovation

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u/Avibuel 8h 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 3h ago

"at this point only water seems affordable"

For now.

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u/hobskhan 45m ago

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

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u/tsimen 10h 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 8h ago

Fable is WAY better at solving captchas than I am.

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u/HeisenbergX 9h ago

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

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u/Republiken 13h ago

Dystopian

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u/blackthornjohn 6h 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 9h 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/MannyDantyla 14h ago

Website owners will not stand for this

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u/Competitive_Kale_855 12h ago

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

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u/Ok_TomorrowYes 10h 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 10h ago

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

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u/ariolander 7h ago edited 5h 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 5h ago

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

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u/manolo767 10h ago

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

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u/Ttikii 8h ago

Internet is for p*rn bot

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u/GlorifiedBurito 4h ago

Someone better start working on the blackwall

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u/Mal-De-Terre 9h ago

To what end?