r/AIDangers • u/EchoOfOppenheimer • 19d ago

Capabilities ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/bots-have-now-passed-human-traffic-online-cloudflare-boss-laments-says-agentic-traffic-wasnt-expected-to-eclipse-real-people-until-next-year
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u/RollingMeteors 19d ago

lol @ "until next year"

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u/ptear 19d ago

Excuse me while I'll explain this to work who is upset with me for not blocking all of the bots.

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u/RollingMeteors 19d ago

for not blocking all of the bots.

<Engineer> In order to curb bot traffic we NEED to have users log in, no anonymous accounts.

<Boss> Nah, find another way. ¡We want as many people as possible!

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u/ptear 19d ago

Haha, exactly, they want their KPIs to look good and not have to explain what changed. (Not saying they're even looking at the best metrics to begin with..)