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Text taken from an article posted at playground.ru
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Machine traffic has overtaken human traffic. What was recently considered one of the most prominent internet conspiracy theories is now increasingly becoming the subject of serious debate. According to new data from Cloudflare, automated traffic has surpassed human activity for the first time: bots now generate 57.5% of all web page requests, while humans account for 42.5%. This doesn't refer to all internet traffic as a whole, but specifically to HTTP requests to web pages passing through Cloudflare's infrastructure.
According to the company's co-founder and CEO, Matthew Prince, this milestone has been reached significantly earlier than expected; he previously predicted that bots would surpass humans only in 2027. The increase in automated activity is primarily attributed to the proliferation of AI agents and services that independently browse websites, collect information, compare products, index content, and perform other tasks without human intervention.
An increasing number of such queries are driven by artificial intelligence systems rather than traditional search robots. However, experts emphasize an important detail: the 57.5% figure does not mean that more bots than humans use the internet. It merely reflects the number of requests to web pages in Cloudflare's network. Other cybersecurity companies also record a predominance of automated traffic, but they use their own calculation methods, so the final figures may differ.
Nevertheless, the very fact that machine traffic has begun to dominate human traffic is already being called one of the most important turning points in the history of the internet. According to Cloudflare, the rapid spread of AI could significantly change the traditional model of the World Wide Web, where interactions between programs, rather than between people, will increasingly play a role.
It was inevitable. Since 2024, a gradual, steady increase in the number of machine comments has been recorded, and over time, people in the comments began to fail to distinguish between machine and human comments.
Mandatory "passport" authentication to filter out human and machine comments is inevitable. Last year, 51% of queries were machine-generated.
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