Nigeria, June 26 -- As we wander or wad through the delightful, diverse and dynamic thicket of snapshots, posts, videos, newscasts, games and billboards on the internet, we start to grasp that it might not be a spiky wood that needs protective boots to venture into, but it is awash with convenient and complex AI tools: the bots. Is the net not our human hotspot where we talk and walk territorial integrity? No! Constituting 42%- 52% of general web traffic, bots have a say. The beauty of bots can be seen in how they are used by search engines. Still, the majority are hateful, they linger, loot and guess usernames and passwords. Criminality!

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