{"id":659016,"date":"2025-09-22T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.aivancity.ai\/blog\/the-platypus-no-longer-exists-the-internet-has-just-switched-sides-to-the-machines\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:21:26","slug":"the-platypus-no-longer-exists-the-internet-has-just-switched-sides-to-the-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.aivancity.ai\/blog\/en\/the-platypus-no-longer-exists-the-internet-has-just-switched-sides-to-the-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"The platypus no longer exists: The internet has just switched sides to the machines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Dr. Tawhid CHTIOUI, Founding President of aivancity, the leading school for AI and data<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ten-year-old boy sits down in front of the screen. Curious, he types in a word he heard at school but can\u2019t quite picture: platypus. He wants to see what this funny animal looks like\u2014one his classmates have described as an impossible mix of a duck and a beaver. He expects to laugh, to be amazed, to discover the whimsy of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what appears on his tablet are dozens of contradictory images. Some are real, taken by wildlife photographers. Others are digital illusions, generated by artificial intelligence: a fluorescent platypus, a platypus with wings, a platypus dancing on two legs. For him, who doesn\u2019t yet know the animal, the line between real and fake becomes blurred. His first encounter with the living takes place in a world where every other click leads to fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This scene isn\u2019t science fiction. It\u2019s our reality. Because a silent shift has taken place: more than half of global internet traffic is generated by bots, and more than half of the text content hosted online is now produced or translated by AI. What was meant to be humanity\u2019s library is becoming a gigantic labyrinth of artificial echoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Internet was created to connect people, preserve their memories, and broaden their horizons. Today, it is becoming a space where machines and algorithms interact with one another, weaving a web that bears less and less resemblance to a mirror of the human world. The realization is staggering: the Internet is no longer predominantly human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So a pressing and profound question arises: what will become of a world where we no longer know whether the first image we present to a child is that of an animal\u2026 or that of a digital fantasy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The New Divisions in an Automated Internet: Economy, Culture, Science, Society<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Imagine an internet where the majority of visitors are no longer mere flesh-and-blood users, and where most articles, images, and videos no longer originate from the human mind. This science-fiction-worthy scenario is now a very real reality. In the space of just a few years, the Web has quietly shifted toward a dual phenomenon without precedent: more than half of global traffic is generated by computer bots, and an equally large share of online content is produced\u2014or at least translated\u2014by artificial intelligence. This reversal, which has gone almost unnoticed in everyday life, nevertheless marks a profound turning point in the history of the Internet\u2014a pivotal moment when machines are taking control of the production and circulation of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time since the creation of the web, traffic is dominated by non-human actors. According to the 2025 Bad Bot Report by cybersecurity firm Imperva, 51% of all global traffic in 2024 came from automated programs, compared to just 49% from us humans. This symbolic milestone marks an unprecedented shift: the web is now more<\/p>\n\n\n\n

visited by machines rather than people. And the breakdown of the figures speaks volumes: of that 51%, nearly 37% can be attributed to \u201cbad bots,\u201d used for spam, fraud, or cyberattacks, while only 14% come from \u201cbeneficial\u201d bots such as search engine crawlers. The digital frontier increasingly resembles a battlefield where swarms of invisible machines vie for every millisecond of bandwidth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n