Blaming "bots" omits part of the discussion. There's a danger of us looking for some other, a scapegoat "system" or "inevitable process" to throw blame on to.

Blaming "bots" omits part of the discussion. There's a danger of us looking for some other, a scapegoat "system" or "inevitable process" to throw blame on to. As well as out of control positive feedback amplifying the fake (expedient, efficient, profitable) there's negative feedback suppressing the authentic (complex, messy, emotional, unique). We are doing this to ourselves. People make and program bots, and so it's people that want to kill the Internet, but also what it represented about human connectivity. There are plenty of humans actively attacking what is human. I've heard them called misanthropists, nihilists, cosmists, trans-humanists, tech fanbois, singularity wingnuts, species traitors... all kinds of names and explanations for the same phenomenon - a masochistic, self-loathing or disgust for humanity presented as a "love" of technology. Maybe it's climate change, overpopulation, first-world guilt, who knows? Perhaps the idea of AI genesis linked to human sacrifice gives some a sense of fascistic "new broom" purpose? Whatever the explanation, we built the internet, and we (humans) are actively destroying it.