More than half of global internet traffic is now generated by bots and AI, according to Cloudflare Radar. During the week of May 29 to June 4, bots accounted for 57.4% of all HTTP requests for HTML content, while humans generated only 42.6%. A significant portion of this traffic comes from AI agents that either collect data to train models or act on behalf of users.
According to experts' earlier forecasts, this milestone was not expected to be reached until 2027. The “Dead Internet Theory” suggests that the public internet will gradually become a simulation in which the majority of content and interactions are generated by artificial intelligence, while real human users represent only a small fraction of overall activity.
