‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
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Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.
  • sus@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Some agent may do 100 queries for 1 user question, but a single scraper bot will do 100 queries every single second of every single day, and costs less to run than the LLM.

    • motruck@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Fair point. Scrapping is definitely the low overhead high impact problem.