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Bots really are ruining the internet, and are one of the driving factors in a lot of the identity verification and age gating. Both pressures are going to combine to destroy what we once had with the internet.
It's nothing new though. Forum spam has been around since the early internet. The only difference is that spammers use LLMs now, instead of $0.08 worth of "freelance writing".