::: spoiler Social Media
- Hacker News. :::
Automated traffic—all non-human internet traffic—is growing eight times faster than human traffic, AI-driven traffic—traffic generated by or on behalf of AI systems—is the fastest-growing category of internet traffic, and for the first time, AI systems are not just reading the web but transacting on it.
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fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 159d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 159d
The Great Firewall exists. Tho it's meant to control people, not AI.
Specter@piefed.social · 4 pts · 159d
At this point The Great Firewall is looking more like it’s protecting people from this AI slop. I have no idea how websites are in China, but I think I would be okay with Europe raising a great firewall against US owned companies.
The damage US far-right influencers (along with Russian funding of local parties) is doing in Europe cannot be underestimated.
Sims@lemmy.ml · -14 pts · 159d
It's made to counter US propaganda. In fact, any nation that doesn't protect their information 'borders' are candy for US 3 letter agencies and their manipulation of their peoples information/values.
Have a firewall or succumb to US manipulation of your citizens. It's that easy, so no wonder US have created the 'bad bad firewall' sentiment.
Oc people can't rely on their governments only (especially in the West), so we must also have an information firewall that can reject pure propaganda nonsense before it reaches us. Moving from Reddit to Lemmy was a small step in that direction.
Nythos@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 159d
EisFrei@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 159d
Federation clearly was an error, as it weakens the information borders.
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 159d
except that blackwall was put there by corporations to protect their interests(malicious ai not messing everything up). Here we need that kind of blackwall to protect our interest against corporations which are essentially the malicious entities. But I wonder if non-corporate people/groups can even consider such projects anymore let alone maintain them so it would protect more than couple of people or small groups. It seems to me humanity in the west has lost the community spirit completely. Even fediverse feels more like fading embers that still warm you. Its just everyone for themselves and maybe their own little clique.
i would really love to be wrong.
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 159d
No wonder why some sites started to lag so hard in recent months.
JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 159d
Yeah my favorite electronics hobby supplies website has started to take 2-10 seconds to load. Still great service and the best selection of modules in my region though. They should really throw Anubis in front of it.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 159d
Besides Anubis, is there any other tool that might work here?
I know about fail2ban and rate limiting configurations on Nginx level etc. But I mean, yes we have Anubis.. But aside of Anubis??
JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 159d
CrowdSec could probably catch a moderate amount of them, but that is really geared towards bad actors and malicious probing bots.
Fial2ban also wouldn't work at all here since they aren't trying brute force attacks, they are just using high bandwidth stealing as much public data from everything possible.
I think cloudflare is also making an alternative (or has already), but it is a tough problem.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 157d
Thanks! I use OPNsense, I do already have set several block lists actually like FireHOL 1,2,3 and 4.
I found the community plugin called
os-crowdsec. I will try it set it up: https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/next/getting_started/install_crowdsec_opnsense/I want to avoid Cloudflare :).. And yes I know fail2ban will not catch these kind of AI bots or DDos attacks. Even if its a brute force attack, most bad actors are using a botnet with 100.000's of unique IPs.. Fail2ban would be no help either in that case.
EDIT: I also found another block list: https://threathive.net/. Which updates every 15 min. This one is great I think as well. So the list would be: https://threathive.net/hiveblocklist.txt
null@lemmy.org · 18 pts · 159d
Social media always felt like shouting into the void, but these days it feels like the void shouts back with advertisements and proaganda.
bluetoofs@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 159d
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 159d
Dead Internet Theory is no longer really a theory, it's happening in real time.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 159d
And yet not a single word in that entire article about bots being used to post on Internet forums to engineer public opinion, which is certainly what came to my mind when I read the headline.
The closest it comes is the section where it admits that because they're all spoofing known Big Tech scrapers, they can't actually say how much of any particular activity is actually going on beyond some broad generalizations.
I can confirm though - my web server was positively getting hammered until I locked it down with fail2ban.
XLE@piefed.social · 5 pts · 159d
Scary press release... But how convenient this company is warning about a threat that they promise to solve.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 5 pts · 159d
This title makes no logical sense. An official statement about a thing has to come from the entity that is in charge of that thing. So, if AI and bots have taken over the internet, any official announcement would logically have to come from the AI or bots.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 159d
Advertising press release disguised as news.