The Internet was always full of bots. Not chatbots, but bots like crawlers, scrapers, automated scripts. That was fine. What the OP is talking about is bots th

The Internet was always full of bots. Not chatbots, but bots like crawlers, scrapers, automated scripts. That was fine. What the OP is talking about is bots that participate in public discourse. That's the actual problem. I think it can be handled to a degree though. Private communities, private Internet on top of existing Internet, and social media platforms without public APIs and with strict, enforceable ToS would all help.