AI Web Crawlers Account for 30% of Global Web Traffic According to Cloudflare Data
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Summary
AI web crawlers are consuming a significant portion of global web traffic, with Cloudflare reporting 30% of traffic coming from bots and Fastly noting that 80% of AI bot traffic comes from data fetcher bots. The article presents an opinion piece arguing that these AI crawlers are strip-mining the web for content to feed large language models, potentially damaging websites and the overall web ecosystem.
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· 3 pulled30% of global web traffic now comes from bots
80% of all AI bot traffic comes from AI data fetcher bots
AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills
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