AI agents are eating the web, with bot traffic up nearly 8,000%
Sauerkrautkid7 · reddit · 2026-07-26
A Fortune article argues that AI agents are already reshaping the web, with bot traffic growing nearly 8,000% and threatening the internet’s business model.
- The piece says the old “dead internet theory” framing is increasingly hard to dismiss as agents and bots consume a growing share of web traffic.
- It links that shift to changes in how the internet is monetized and discovered.
- The core claim is not just that traffic is automated, but that the web’s economic structure is being rewired around machines rather than humans.
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