Bots now generate 57.5% of web page requests. For the first time, machines are making more requests to web pages than humans, and more of the internet is being rebuilt around them.

This isn’t the dead internet theory, because the internet is very much alive. But the thing is, more of it is being designed for AI agents, while we humans are becoming an afterthought.

Juan and Kate run the receipts: Cloudflare says bots now generate 57.5% of web requests, 18 months ahead of its CEO’s own prediction. Agentic AI traffic grew 7,851% in a single year. Stripe reports that 70% of its API commands already come from agents, and a quarter of developers now build their APIs with AI as the primary customer.

So what happens when the web’s most important users aren’t people?

When an AI agent can cancel your gym reservation because an API has zero authorization checks, and more systems are being built for agents to act on our behalf, what happens to the ad-funded, human-facing internet?

Will it even exist as we know it five years from now?

ABOUT SLOP WORLD

AI news with receipts. Juan Faisal and Kate Cook fact-check the claims Big Tech is making about AI, follow the money, and break down what it actually means for your job, your data, and your daily life. From leaked data and corporate cover-ups to AI schools, stolen identities, and layoff headlines that don’t add up, we cover the AI stories that everyone’s hyping but nobody’s verifying. New episodes every Thursday.

DISCLAIMER

All content is commentary and opinion based on publicly available documents, interviews, and verifiable sources. References to “scams,” “grifts,” or related terms reflect our editorial opinion, not legal conclusions. Anyone featured who believes a statement is inaccurate may contact us.

CHAPTERS

00:00 The Dead Internet Theory Just Got Proof

01:32 Why AI Agents Visit 5,000 Sites at Once

03:17 How AI Scraping Crushed Cara

04:54 Why Does Everything Online Feel Fake Now?

06:41 How Bots Took Over r/BuyItForLife

08:35 The Band Geese Was a Total AI Psyop

10:51 AI Didn't Invent Fake Trends. It Scaled Them.

12:38 The Internet's New Go-To Insult: You're a Bot

14:16 Why the Internet Became the Opposite of The Matrix

16:33 You Don't Deserve Nice Things Right Now

18:22 Your New Front Door to the Internet Is an LLM

North Korean IT workers used stolen identities, AI-generated faces, and AI-assisted interview answers to get hired by real US companies. In Hong Kong, deepfake versions of a CFO and senior colleagues convinced an Arup finance worker to transfer $25 million.This episode is about what happens when AI makes remote hiring easier to fake and harder to verify.We break down the North Korean IT worker operation that submitted roughly 167,000 job applications in 10 months, the deepfake video call behind the $25 million Arup fraud, and the US facilitators who helped overseas workers appear to be working from inside the country.The larger problem is that AI now works on both sides of the hiring process. Companies use it to screen résumés and move candidates through the process faster. Candidates can use it to coach themselves through interviews, generate fake identities, and impersonate someone else entirely.The tools that made remote hiring faster and cheaper also made verification harder. Seeing someone on Zoom is no longer proof they are who they claim to be.

ABOUT SLOP WORLD

AI news with receipts. Juan Faisal and Kate Cook fact-check the claims Big Tech is making about AI, follow the money, and break down what it actually means for your job, your data, and your daily life.

From leaked data and corporate cover-ups to AI schools, stolen identities, and layoff headlines that don’t add up, we cover the AI stories that everyone’s hyping but nobody’s verifying.

New episodes every Saturday.

DISCLAIMER

All content is commentary and opinion based on publicly available documents, interviews, and verifiable sources. References to “scams,” “grifts,” or related terms reflect our editorial opinion, not legal conclusions. Anyone featured who believes a statement is inaccurate may contact us.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Is Your Coworker Real, or an AI Hiring Scam?

01:04 How Remote Work Made Hiring Easy to Fake

03:33 The $25 Million Deepfake CFO Scam

06:27 North Korean IT Workers: 167,000 Applications

08:58 Why This Scam Needs a US Accomplice

10:00 When Fake Workers Steal Real Identities

11:56 How a Stolen ID and ChatGPT Build a Fake Worker

14:55 Why "Human in the Loop" Isn't Working

16:05 Can AI Tools Catch Fake Job Applicants?

17:25 Trust Is the Real Cost of AI Hiring

Sam Altman thinks the ChatGPT use case that changes everything is turning your family calendar into a daily podcast for your kids on the drive to school. That is, until someone replied asking a simple question... “Why don’t you just talk to your children?”

Juan and Kate review the dumbest AI use cases doing the rounds right now. Grocery lists turned into haikus, Gemini Notebook (formerly known as Google NotebookLM) podcast bots saying “fascinating, let me add to that” to each other. Vibe-coded websites (sites generated by AI purely from an aesthetic prompt) that should have been a three-line email. Anthropic’s weirdly dystopian “there’s hope in hard questions” ad.

Which would all be easier to laugh off if AI weren’t eating this much money and infrastructure. Because od data centers, the same hard drive we bought for this podcast a year ago is now nearly three times the price, while 70% of Microsoft’s AI earnings... come directly from OpenAI.

That’s what this episode is all about, asking ourselves (and you), how did a technology attracting this much money end up being sold to us with bedtime stories, recipes and increasingly elaborate ways to avoid doing simple things ourselves?

ABOUT SLOP WORLD

AI news with receipts. Juan Faisal and Kate Cook fact-check the claims Big Tech is making about AI, follow the money, and break down what it actually means for your job, your data, and your daily life.

From leaked data and corporate cover-ups to AI schools, stolen identities, and layoff headlines that don’t add up, we cover the AI stories that everyone’s hyping but nobody’s verifying.

New episodes every Saturday.

DISCLAIMER

All content is commentary and opinion based on publicly available documents, interviews, and verifiable sources. References to “scams,” “grifts,” or related terms reflect our editorial opinion, not legal conclusions. Anyone featured who believes a statement is inaccurate may contact us.

CHAPTERS

0:00 What Was Sam Altman's Wildest ChatGPT Pitch?

1:13 The Tweet Reply That Got 220,000 Likes

3:20 Is Gemini Notebook's Podcast Feature Useless?

6:24 The Haiku Grocery List Nobody Asked For

7:44 Claude Websites: All Style, Zero Substance

10:16 Anthropic's Cringe 'Hope in Hard Questions' Ad

12:49 Why These 'Cute' AI Demos Feel So Empty

15:31 Why Your Hard Drive Costs 3x More Now

17:14 What AI Should Actually Feel Like (Kate & Juan Disagree)