The Internet has more artificial intelligence and bot traffic than actual human traffic, according to a new Cloudflare report published last week that seems to confirm the \u201cDead Internet Theory.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Cloudflare’s estimates, almost 60% of all Internet traffic worldwide is generated by automated scripts, including traditional crawlers, search indexers, malware bots, and now AI agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWelp, that happened faster than I predicted,\u201d said Cloudflare\u2019s CEO Matthew Prince, who admitted that he estimated that bots would become the majority of the Internet\u2019s users by early 2027.<\/p>\n \u201cAgentic traffic<\/a> is growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history,\u201d he said in an X\/Twitter post announcing the report.<\/p>\n While bots are usually associated with automated scripts that perform repetitive actions such as posting on social media, increasing video views, creating fake stats on sites, or buying products online, many of the new agents actually browse the internet and perform more complex tasks.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s hacker hub described by number of bots<\/p>\n The report also showed that the Internet under Iran’s Islamic regime is composed of a majority of bots, with experts pointing out that this is most likely because of Iran\u2019s hacking operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n The current estimates place Iran\u2019s network at between 75% and 80% bots, while less than a fifth of the total traffic is human.<\/p>\n When a user called out this report, saying that it’s hard to believe a country like Iran, with almost 100 million people, has most of its internet traffic composed of bots, Prince said, \u201cYou wildly underestimate the scale and skill of the Iranian hacking efforts. Similar to North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n