Well stated!
It's not just slop but job destruction.
Hacker News has more than 10 posts a day about the slop and automated harm to websites by the intense crawling.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/go-to-hell-bernie-sanders-unites-labor-leaders-in-huge-push-for-ai-protections-and-a-halt-to-data-center-construction-growing-national-anti-data-center-sentiment-results-in-protests-bans-and-project-cancellations
In a statement accompanying a video shared online, Sanders said, “The same oligarchs who shipped jobs overseas now want to replace tens of millions of American workers with AI. Our message to them is: Go to hell.”
The video saw Sanders target Tesla, specifically Elon Musk’s plans to convert the company to focus on robotics with the plan to build 100 million robots per year. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was also in Sanders’ crosshairs for his prediction that most white collar work will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months.
More.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bernie-sanders-says-elon-musk-100105315.html
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) escalated his criticism of the artificial intelligence boom on Tuesday, warning on the Senate floor that what he called "The Big Tech Oligarchs" want an AI revolution that enriches a handful of billionaires and not the broader working class.
Sanders Names Tech Titans Driving AI
In a post on X, the Vermont independent wrote, "Who is pushing AI? Musk. Bezos. Zuckerberg. Ellison. What they want is not what working families need," and embedded his full floor speech.
Who is pushing AI? Musk. Bezos. Zuckerberg. Ellison.
What they want is not what working families need. https://t.co/kRJCrkV0E5
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 24, 2026
Roughly half the internet traffic is AI crawlers and bots.
It was useful.
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