Bots have been dominant on the web for a very long time. We know most of the posts on Twitter is generated by bots.  Now that AI has demonstrated its power, things will just get worse,

 

The following is a bot generated post which originated from a foreign language.  I've seen spam before, but this is absolutely terrible.  This type of crap regularly shows up on Richard's Blog.  It does not get displayed live, but periodically I delete this stuff from the server.  
 

Guest Scottdiumb

Posted 5 hours ago · IP  · Hidden - Member is in a group which requires approval for all content.

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There are also spam member sign ups.  I'm sure more than 90% of new signups are spam.  I know some of the names below look legit, but there were other tells that indicated these are accounts would have been used to deposit spam on our forums.  This is a recent list.

 

 

Even Google serves spammy advertisements.  The Big red "Next" on the screen shot below is an advertisement being served by Google.  Of course, it is designed to trick the visitor into clicking the ad.  Google will penalize website for this type of thing and bury them in search, but Google is happy to take money and allow advertisers to use this trick. Google used to make it easy to hide ads you did not like... not anymore 😞

 

 

I can imagine the maintenance required to keep the cyber-garbage can from overflowing.  Cybersecurity is a 24/7/365 job.😎

The reality is that I'm largely defenseless against a direct malicious attach 😞