Cloudflare CEO predicts AI bot traffic will surpass human web traffic by 2027
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicts that AI bot traffic will surpass human web traffic by 2027, driven by the rapid growth of generative AI technology. Bots are visiting far more websites than humans to gather answers for chatbot queries, dramatically increasing infrastructure demands on the web.
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Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince.
With the speed at which artificial intelligence is growing, AI bot traffic will exceed the amount of human traffic that's online by 2027.
If a human were doing a task — let's say you were shopping for a digital camera — and you might go to...
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