AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/its-official-agentic-bots-surf-the-web-more-than-real-people-do/

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ratrace@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 67d (1 reply)

depressing... I thought the robocuck future would a least have some trains. All my life I have seen no human progress

NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 11 pts · 67d

Best I can do is a gen AI picture if a train with Elon Musk's face on it.

JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch · 11 pts · 66d

flying penguin blog post on why that's a lie

it's only http traffic, not traffic in general, and it's AI crawlers from the big companies, not agents running on behalf mf users.

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 66d

First spam, then unoptimized sites, then AI. Makes you wonder how fast things would really be without any of that.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 66d

dead internet theory intensifies

Reza@programming.dev · 3 pts · 66d

What exactly CAPTCHAs do? Stop humans?