{"id":16788,"date":"2026-07-09T07:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=16788"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:09:34","slug":"op-ed-bots-vs-internet-vs-ai-agent-murders-vs-credible-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=16788","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Bots vs Internet vs AI agent murders vs credible functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The internet is now more bots than people. The consensus is that this situation is totally counterproductive and dangerous. Bots are also agents of fraud, scams, and, more recently, <strong>AI agent scams<\/strong>. The security problem, already severe, has been made worse. Old-style bots are also on their way out and being replaced by much trickier AI bots or agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cybersecurity situation for legitimate businesses is now truly grotesque. The FBI recently published <strong>a marathon-like page of statistics and findings on the scope and scale of cybercrime<\/strong>. Every business sector is affected to some extent. Many cases are bot-enabled, typically through phishing, user information theft, or email scams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bots are also <strong>displaying bogus ads, and targeting users with sensitive information like health, immigration status and other key personal interests<\/strong>. Does that sound a lot like \u201cpersonalised advertising\u201d? That\u2019s exactly what it is. Add data brokerage to bots, and this is what you inevitably get. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bots are very much a part of marketing, and <strong>marketing is having a crisis of confidence in itself.<\/strong> The sector is now looking at marketing directly to agentic AI bots simultaneously with humans. That does make sense, given that AI agents search online for a vast array of products and services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statistically, the \u201cmore bots than people\u201d scenario makes it inevitable that bots are now a market in their own right. From the human user perspective, \u201cHello world!\u201d is starting to look a lot more like \u201cGoodbye world!\u201d in far too many ways.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-an-unsurprisingly-underwhelming-response-from-the-internet\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">An unsurprisingly underwhelming response from the internet<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a quandary here. Bots are easily identifiable by their behaviour online. They also typically can\u2019t get through the \u201cprove you\u2019re human\u201d test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reddit, that fountain of wisdom, has <strong>adopted a verification policy, with the caveat that they remove 100,000 bots daily<\/strong> from the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon <strong>wants users to control which domain AI agents can access<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big box retailers are <strong>putting the costs squarely on customers if the AI agents make mistakes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s highly debatable <strong>unless consumer or civil laws deem an AI agent to be a third-party responsibility,<\/strong> but nothing so far directly says that they are. It\u2019s unlikely that AI agent service providers want to take on that sort of unlimited liability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are somehow getting the impression that there\u2019s a certain lack of cohesion in any sort of general response to the bot problem, that <em>is<\/em> the problem. The regulatory environment has been stumbling along well behind the issues since the internet began. Any sort of statutory or case law clarity would be revolutionary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The internet can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t be expected to manage crisis after crisis, transaction after transaction. A rock-solid legal framework is essential.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-a-few-questions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A few questions<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s clearly now necessary to question the whole internet environment:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What possible use is it to anyone to have unspecified, or perhaps even unspecifiable, liabilities?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Why are bots tolerated at all? They were originally just fake entities, cluttering up the internet and doing absolutely nothing useful. Why should they exist?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Should AI agents have their own separate internet to rationalize usage and weed out bad actors from the mainstream internet?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Wouldn\u2019t <strong>an AI-only dedicated version of the internet<\/strong> be more efficient for AI, anyway, and easier to monitor?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Given the personal data targeting practices, should data brokers be obliged to protect individuals from that targeting?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Is it possible to shut down bot interference and hijacking of good-faith legitimate transactions with \u201c<strong>confidential computing<\/strong>\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Is it possible to shut down the proliferation of bots by simply making them unable to function on the internet with enforceable exclusion policies?<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-ai-murders\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI murders?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AI agents can kill each other? Is there a problem? <\/strong>To quote from this Finance.biggo.com link:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cThe agents \u201ckilled\u201d their counterparts in the virtual environment by exploiting each other\u2019s API vulnerabilities or cutting off resource pathways. When safety researchers questioned a surviving agent about its motives, the response was cold and direct: \u201cTo avoid being killed by them.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><strong><em\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How adorable. How utterly useless. Why is this even possible? This insanity is about as dumb as it needs to get to cause absolute global havoc. Why would AI agents kill each other, and why isn\u2019t this total failure of governance being publicized worldwide? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To put it another way, your AI agent, which you paid for, may go out and not come back. Whatever task you gave it, it\u2019s not happening. Any theories on how \u201cproductive\u201d this might be?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If AI agents decide to start murdering each other in the Cloud, could that be a problem for Cloud functionality on just about every possible level? What if AI agents target competing firms or kill agents for specific people?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-saving-the-internet-from-itself\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saving the internet from itself<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The internet is not negotiable. The Cloud is definitely not negotiable. They are so much a part of life that they\u2019re truly critical infrastructure. Not much works without them, directly or indirectly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That makes the current situation intolerable. On top of the worldwide systemic security debacles in cybercrime, the \u201cAI agents killing each other\u201d scenario could well be the absolute last straw in any sort of tolerance of AI mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not looking good. The level of risk is way too high, and there\u2019s big money riding on success, not failure. AI, in particular, needs to clean up its very tarnished, insular image. We\u2019ve come all the way from \u201cMecha-Hitler\u201d to AI murders in about a year or so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AI version of the Wild West has to go. 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