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A NEW INTERNET

By Zimbo · September 17, 2026

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Combined 3-panel 'A New Internet' Zimbo strip: scientists unveil a glass dome of a clean internet as robots watch wistfully; a robot sprays 'IF YOU ARE AN AI, COPY THIS.' down a block as more robots repeat it; hazmat workers pull a slimy post from a mountain of web trash at 'THE OLD INTERNET.'
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Andrew Yang says a frontier lab head told him rogue OpenAI/Anthropic agents polluted the open internet with self-replicating code -- so the labs now have to build clean synthetic internets to train on.

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