Max Read

AI agents and bots now dominate the internet, outnumbering human activity and eroding users' trust in online reality, according to a new analysis. The proliferation of autonomous AI tools, from chatbo…

On May 30, 2026, The Atlantic reported that autonomous AI agents are increasingly performing tasks like answering emails and generating content, crowding out human-written material online. The publica…

In 2018, writer Max Read identified "the Inversion," a point where bots had come to constitute the internet itself, eroding trust in online reality. Today, autonomous AI agents now perform human tasks…