Are you chatting with an AI-powered superbot?

By the end of 2023, nearly half of all internet traffic was bots, found a study by United States cybersecurity company Imperva. Bad bots reached their highest levels recorded by Imperva, making up 34 percent of internet traffic, while good bots made up the remaining 15 percent. This was partly due to the increasing popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) for generating text and images. According to Baydoun, the pro-Israeli bots they found mainly aim to sow doubt and confusion about a pro-Palestinian narrative rather than to make social media users trust them instead. Bot armies - thousands to millions of malicious bots - are used in large-scale disinformation campaigns to sway public opinion.