94.2%
About what share of websites have experienced a bot attack, per one industry study?
Bot attacks range from scraping content to trying stolen passwords at login pages.
Source: Wikipedia, Internet bot (2024) en.wikipedia.org
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In 2016, about how many chatbots were created on Facebook Messenger in the platform's first six months?
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about 100,000
By September 2017, about how many chatbots existed on Facebook Messenger?
That's more than triple the count from just a year earlier.
Source: Wikipedia, Chatbot (2017) en.wikipedia.org
about 10x as much
Per a widely cited 2023 estimate, how much more energy does a single ChatGPT query use compared with a Google search?
That energy gap is one reason AI chatbots raise questions about data-center power use at scale.
Source: Wikipedia, Chatbot (2023) en.wikipedia.org
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