Synthetic players used to populate multiplayer environments

Dead Internet Theory: Multiplayer games sometimes add bots deliberately to fill matches or ease new players into competition, which means a populated game session does not necessarily represent an equally large human population.

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By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-08-13

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