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AI bots and AI-generated content are flooding the internet with spam, scams, and misinformation. And it's making it a nightmare to be online.

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When logging on to HBO Max at the end of May, people noticed something strange.  Usually when someone logs into the site, HBO asks them to verify that they are human by solving a captcha — you know, the little "I am not a robot" checkbox or the "select all squares with stoplights" image grids that prove to the website that you are, in fact, a human. 

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AI is about to turn the internet into a total nightmare