easily 30-40%. you could see trends even as far back as 2020. same patterns as with reddit.
e.g. bunch of old accounts with random bursts of activity, often posting to old / stale threads (e.g. 2-3 days old, when no one is looking at them), and often saying generic one liners or regurgitating summarizations of top / most upvoted points.
except when the posts were about some hot topic, bet you can guess which ones...
AWS AI Researchers put bot traffic as high as 50% across the internet in this study from June 2024: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749
e.g. bunch of old accounts with random bursts of activity, often posting to old / stale threads (e.g. 2-3 days old, when no one is looking at them), and often saying generic one liners or regurgitating summarizations of top / most upvoted points.
except when the posts were about some hot topic, bet you can guess which ones...
AWS AI Researchers put bot traffic as high as 50% across the internet in this study from June 2024: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749