AI bots could outpace human web traffic by 1,000x, says Cloudflare
TL;DR
Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert warns that non-human internet traffic could be up to 1,000 times human traffic within five years as agentic AI drives web activity; humans would become a rounding error online. The forecast follows an earlier prediction that bot traffic would surpass human traffic, and highlights security and privacy risks as the web shifts toward bot-enabled, high-speed automation, potentially impacting independent sites and the broader online ecosystem. Cloudflare argues greater efficiency will be required to manage this shift.
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