I just published AALBC's AI Policy, which can be summed up in a nutshell: While we use AI for much of development; All of our editorial (book reviews, articles, author interviews, etc.) content is human generated.

While research our policy I came to alarming stats:

1. A 2026 study of online articles found that “AI Now Writes as Many Online Articles as Humans”

2. Thales/Imperva reports that 53% of global web traffic in 2025 was automated rather than human, up from 51% in 2024. (“Bad Bot Report 2026: The Internet Is No Longer Human and It’s Changing How Business Works.”

At the risk of sounding "hysterically indignant," this is a really very bad sign for the Internet. I thought social media algorithms were bad (and they are), but AI driven bots taking over the web is far worse.

Bots have taken over social media long ago, but the rest of the web was still a relatively free of bot manipulation. That may no longer true today.

This is one reason I've been spending months eliminating third party app, and all their nasty, bloated trackers, from AALBC.

AI is just getting started. Hang on to your jobs, er, seats as long as possible.

The.future does not bode well for creatives & people who are allergic to working with their hands.😁😎