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AI traffic will vastly exceed human internet use, Musk says
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,…
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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.
The Indian Opinion
The usual panic about AI taking over now has a fresh avatar: bots will crowd out humans online. But the claim relies on a specific metric from one company's network, not the whole internet. Humans still drive commerce, content creation, and decisions that matter. The real test will be whether businesses and regulators can distinguish useful automation from parasitic scraping. Who defines what counts as non-human traffic?
Source: timesnownews.com
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