VC: bots have taken over reply sections, the open internet may soon close
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-06
Investor Stewart Alsop III observes that bot accounts have already won on big accounts' replies and are now flooding his 5k-follower account.
- He predicts the open internet without LLM defenses will soon be closed.
- Not by authoritarian KYC mandates, but by infinite slop cannons equipped with captcha solvers.
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