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AI Agents Now Drive More Than Half of Web Traffic

Original: It's Clownfare again, and this isn't good news either, unless you're a machine. "Over the past year, daily requests from

Cloudflare reports that over the past year, daily requests from AI agents on its network grew by more than 1,700%, and for the first time more than half of all Internet traffic was not human. Commenters are reacting critically, with some comparing the surge in automated traffic to a Ponzi scheme and warning it is bad news for the human web.

Why now: New figures showing AI bots now outnumber human traffic online have reignited debate about the automated web

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• It's Clownfare again, and this isn't good news either, unless you're a machine. "Over the past year, daily requests from AI agents on our network grew by more than 1,700%. This year, for the first time, more than half of Internet traffic wasn't human." More like a ponzi scheme:… · AAKL@infosec.exchange · 1

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