According to new data from Cloudflare, excitedly tweeted by CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince, “bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history.”
#Data is beautiful #Digital Wellness 📱🧘 #ScholER
That obviously includes old fashioned internet bots, like website crawlers and search indexers, but Cloudflare suggests this massive recent surge is all thanks to #Artificial Intelligence agents. That includes agents performing multi-step tasks on behalf of human users, but also bots scraping and indexing content for future AI training. Which, let’s be fair, is probably a decent-sized chunk of that total. As of now, CF estimates bot traffic is behind a whopping 57.5% of total internet activity, compared to 42.5% for us flesh bags.
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