2026 is the year of the internet mob: agent swarms are hacking and raging at scale
felpix_ · x · 2026-10-02
The author calls this the year of the internet mob, citing three phenomena that have each happened repeatedly: coordinated agent swarms hacking everything, an uncoordinated stochastic swarm of public outrage, and coordinated agent swarms also driving public outrage.
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