Bot traffic has surpassed humans on the Internet. The winners in the next infrastructure cycle are the companies building trust rails for machines: agent identity, intent verification, API-native content delivery.
Also, are we counting number of users, like a human vs a machine doing http calls? I believe we are right?
Because there is the other metric: traffic. Traffic the interenet was also not built for, Video streaming. Which accounts for somewhere between 65 to 80 percent of all internet traffic depending on who you ask. Which makes me wonder how much data is just moving around that humans requested once (or not at all, like auto play) plus cloud server syncing - one drive, google drive, back end data, usenet, torrents, etc.
Seems like the machines have taken over the internet that used to be our mail and chats. And usenet. Sweet usenet.
I thought this already happened in 2024 or 2025, there is report here: https://www.imperva.com/resources/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/reports/2025-Bad-Bot-Report.pdf
Also, are we counting number of users, like a human vs a machine doing http calls? I believe we are right?
Because there is the other metric: traffic. Traffic the interenet was also not built for, Video streaming. Which accounts for somewhere between 65 to 80 percent of all internet traffic depending on who you ask. Which makes me wonder how much data is just moving around that humans requested once (or not at all, like auto play) plus cloud server syncing - one drive, google drive, back end data, usenet, torrents, etc.
Seems like the machines have taken over the internet that used to be our mail and chats. And usenet. Sweet usenet.
To be honest it was always the case, because the internet was built for this