10 stories tagged bots, newest first.
169 points by cdrnsf | 259 comments
The Quietus news article reporting that Michael Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison and must forfeit $8 million for bot-farming music streams.
255 points by p-s-v | 320 comments
A personal project post on petervijeh.com analyzing data on whether Reddit has an astroturfing problem with bots and advertisers posing as genuine commenters.
519 points by Oras | 394 comments
Ask HN thread requesting that Hacker News restrict new accounts from posting due to a rise in AI-generated submissions, especially in Show HN.
597 points by skwee357 | 638 comments
A personal blog post by Dmitry Kudryavtsev reflecting on the Dead Internet Theory, starting from his experience browsing Hacker News.
526 points by classichasclass | 392 comments
A Boston Diaries blog post complaining about the Thinkbot AI web crawler, which ignores robots.txt and asks to be blocked by IP across 74 addresses from 41 network blocks.
437 points by scotchmi_st | 230 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing pay per crawl, a feature letting content owners charge AI crawlers for access to their sites.
904 points by foxfired | 397 comments
Blog post by Ibrahim Diallo explaining how he serves zip bombs to malicious bots and scrapers to protect his server.
486 points by erhmmmm | 239 comments
A blog post recounting the author's encounter with a human-seeming Reddit post that turned out to be a bot, reflecting on AI slop online.
348 points by welder | 362 comments
WakaTime blog post by Alan Hamlett claiming over 60% of ProductHunt's million-plus user signups are bots, and describing how he analyzed this.
453 points by thunderbong | 256 comments
A blog post by Nish Tahir examining the attack attempts found in the access logs of his self-hosted web server.