AI Bot Traffic Now Surpasses Human Traffic
CackleRooster · reddit · 2026-07-13
The author summarizes the current state of the internet with a single sentence: the AI Web has become ubiquitous, "like rats in the walls."
Cited data includes: bot traffic accounts for roughly 57%–58% of HTML content requests, leaving only 42%–43% for humans. On platform X, about 23.9% of articles are flagged as fully AI-generated, 22.9% as AI-assisted or hybrid, leaving a mere 53.2% entirely human-written.
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