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For the first time in history, bots are generating a larger share of web traffic than people are, a milestone that is disappointing to many. As TechSpot observed, the shift could affect everything from online shopping and search results to disinformation, cybersecurity, and the growing energy demand tied to artificial intelligence tools. When Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince announced that web traffic has officially crossed the threshold where bots are now ahead of humans overall, he revealed that even he didn't expect such a rapid transition. Prince wrote in a post on X that "that happened faster than I predicted," noting that he "thought it would be the end of 2027."

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On Cloudflare Radar, a tool that estimates what fraction of web traffic is automated activity versus human, the current proportion of total traffic that is bot-driven is now 57.4% after rising as high as about 62% in early June.

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