Posted on 06/07/2026 10:11:18 AM PDT by Twotone
"Welp, that happened faster than I predicted."
That's what Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had to say as his company released data finding that there's now more traffic from bots than humans on the internet.
"Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027 but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history," said Prince.
Cloudflare is perhaps one of the most integral companies on the web, providing services like CDN (Content Delivery Network) and DDoS mitigation for some of the biggest sites on the internet. Cloudflare basically helps popular sites handle all the traffic they receive, so the company is certainly an expert in this realm.
Cloudflare's data shows that at any given point during a day, between 52 percent and 62 percent of traffic on the internet comes from bots. Over the past seven days, Cloudflare says roughly 57.4 percent of traffic has been the result of bots, which includes search crawlers from companies like Google and AI bots from other AI companies. Around 42.5 percent of internet traffic has been from humans.
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Are we screwed?
If we can count the bots, then lets block them.
> If we can count the bots, then lets block them.
They run the search engines that you use every day. Do you really want to go back to 1995?
Then who would post Kremlin and mullah talking points here on FR?
If you can figure out how to reliably do that, your fortune awaits, and Alan Turing would be impressed.
Working in cyber security I have actually seen some pretty reliable sources that even 10 years ago nearly 80% of social media traffic was bots. They will never be blocked at a high level because it would cause a massive loss in advertising revenue for the like of Meta and Google.
I’d like to go back to 1985.
I'm talking about social media posts.
> Are we screwed?
Not as long as there is adequate bandwidth for human activities as well. The bots are doing a tremendous amount of work to keep things running. Of course, a lot of of them are garbage, and a good number of them are malicious. But there’s still plenty of bandwidth for human activities.
The time it takes me to get on and say get my mail or for YouTube to load is as bad or worse than 1995.
I think they’re voting in California, too.
> I’m talking about social media posts.
You’ll have to take that up with the people who run the social media, not Internet services like Cloudflare.
> I’d like to go back to 1985.
A good case could probably be made for that.
I have to wonder how long until AI bots can discover unused online IDs and narrative manage attach themselves to established web sites, forums and posting boards.
Working for the NWO NSA Tavistock Intelligence establishment purposes to skew group thinking, control the message, trivialize or misrepresent actual news, throw out time-wasting puff pieces masquerading as real news or science.
Run out the clock on the truth.
I’d like to go back to 1985.
Ah, no one ever left alive in nineteen hundred and eighty-five will ever do.
I think you need 1.21 Gigawatts to do that...
> The time it takes me to get on and say get my mail or for YouTube to load is as bad or worse than 1995.
Point granted. But I don’t know how much of that is attributable to bots, versus other factors.
Skynet is not far away.
My wild prediction is that in 10-15 years may be less, the Department of War will have a AI based system that monitors everything.
The system will be distributed so it can’t be taken out by destroying a single or multiple locations.
It will monitor all signal intelligence around the world; it will monitor every news source in the world, it will monitor all internet traffic in the world, basically one giant data vacuum cleaner sucking up enormous amounts of data and all processed by AI supercomputers to detect the slightest movements of our adversaries.
How will it all be built, I’m not sure, part of it IMO will be this alternate Starlink network being built by SpaceX for the DOW.
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