I think it’s insane that people can still overlook the impact bots have on many different aspects of life not just the technology. I think back to the launch of dial-up and having an ad watching program to get paid for views but it required constant movement of the mouse. Till then I had not ever heard of a bot, and if I remember correctly it was just called a macro script. Wasn’t long after that the company offering the service was shut-down by having its funding pulled when it leaked users had figured out a way to automate the system. This is also when I first remember download caps coming into play but I think that was more to do with file sharing. Moving forward it seems to just be a repeat pattern, people want to simplify complexities or from my example passive income. I have seen bots wreck so many projects some not intentionally. From games, social media platforms, online gambling, website support staff, ......

I wonder, do the developers of said bots really wish to do the damage they do. And why doesn’t anyone plan for the worst case scenario?

On another note I’d really like to see some other name then bot used to discribe the situation. Some are far more dynamic then just automation but we now have prodictive linguistic bots and self learning not quite full AI but they could certainly combine the two and compile a account take over bot which most people would not know they are not talking to you.

Good read, I’m new here and I am rather impressed with the quality of content being put forward.