# AI traffic will vastly exceed human internet use, Musk says 2026-08-10T08:47:18+00:00 | Technology | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Elon Musk has backed Cloudflare's prediction that AI-generated internet traffic will soon dwarf human activity online, saying it is "not a close call at all". Responding to a report on the trend, Musk wrote on X that AI agentic traffic will "VASTLY exceed human usage". Cloudflare reported that machine-generated traffic surpassed human traffic for the first time in May 2026, a year earlier than it had forecast. Cloudflare's chief financial officer, Thomas Seifert, said during an earnings call that if current trends continue, non-human traffic could be 1,000 times greater than human traffic within five years. He added that humans would become "a rounding error on the internet". Seifert noted that the growth of non-human traffic had been much faster than expected. ## Coverage - timesnownews.com Tags: Agentic AI, AI traffic, Cloudflare, Elon Musk, internet bots Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/ai-traffic-will-vastly-exceed-human-internet-use-musk-says/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/ai-traffic-will-vastly-exceed-human-internet-use-musk-says/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.