When I played Cyberpunk 2077, I thought the concept of the Blackwall was interesting, but a bit far fetched. A giant firewall to protect human networks from malicious AIs that got out of control on the internet? Nah.
Now I don't think so anymore.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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The Great Firewall exists. Tho it's meant to control people, not AI.
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.
Social media always felt like shouting into the void, but these days it feels like the void shouts back with advertisements and proaganda.
No wonder why some sites started to lag so hard in recent months.
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.
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??
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.
Dead Internet Theory is no longer really a theory, it's happening in real time.
AI bots have officially taken over the Internet
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 bots have taken over the internet, any official announcement would logically have to come from the AI bots.
Scary press release... But how convenient this company is warning about a threat that they promise to solve.
Advertising press release disguised as news.