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Humans are now the Minority of Users on the Internet

The web is changing dramatically. Humans are now the minority of users on the Internet, having been surpassed by AI agents. According to Cloudflare Radar data, automated bot and AI agent HTTP traffic reached 57.4% of global web traffic, officially surpassing human traffic at 42.6% as of September 2026. Elon Musk is aggressively growing Starlink capacity, as he anticipates that AI Agents Internet traffic will be 1,000 times greater than humans within 5 years.  Humans have become increasingly annoyed with the morass of ad-driven web content and have found it far more efficient to just ask their AI agent to go get the information they need for them. I do this all the time. Grokbot gives me my morning briefing which is pulled from all of the sources that I follow, without me having to visit the sites. Not only is this an obvious time saver, it's tailored for me and my interests. Of course, this sea change is crashing the ad-revenue of those sites. Ad revenue was never a good so...