Today marks a historical moment in the rapid growth of AI.
AI agents crawling the web have, for the first time, surpassed humans in internet activity, according to Cloudflare.
The split is currently 57% machine to 43% human, at least as measured by HTTP requests. The gulf is certain to widen.
What are the bots doing, you ask?
Checking prices, comparing flights, ordering products, facilitating payments, reading pages, and, not unlike their web crawling forebears, scraping and indexing content. (But this time, for AI models not search engines)
Generative AI has spent years learning from the web, now agents are spending their time "doing" on the web. That translates to lots of page load requests, even if it’s not much time spent compared to humans.
