Testing Dead Internet Theory: 1B Fake Pages for AI Crawlers
metehan777 · x · 2026-07-15
To test the "Dead Internet Theory" (the idea that most web traffic is bots), a developer set up roughly 10 亿 (1 billion) webpages.\n\nThe goal is to examine the true ecosystem of the web: while humans pay to use ChatGPT, website owners bear the server costs for every single AI crawler visit. The project tracks and displays the real-time costs incurred by these bot scrapes.
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