Leaders from Human, Reddit, Roku, and Tripadvisor reckon with a web where bots outnumber people.

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The internet is now more bots than people. The consensus is that this situation is totally counterproductive and dangerous.

Investors have been spooked by the arrival of DeepSeek's chatbot, sparking a rout in high-flying tech titans - Copyright AFP GREG BAKER Investors have been spooked by ...

Automated bots now account for over half of global internet traffic, with malicious bots nearing 40% AI‑driven bot attacks surged more than twelvefold in 2025, blurring lines between legitimate ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataDome, the leader in cyberfraud protection, today released its 2024 Global Bot Security Report, revealing that more than 65% of websites are unprotected against simple ...

Six months ago, I wrote about the AI bots crisis facing publishers: Traffic is plummeting, unauthorized scraping is surging and the industry is scrambling to protect its assets. The problem of ...

Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale For the first time in a decade, automated traffic ...

While humans built the internet, actual people aren’t the ones roaming the online space the most. A new report from Thales says bots accounted for more than 53% of all web traffic in 2025, up from 51% ...

Generative AI is fueling a surge in sophisticated bad bots that mimic human behavior to bypass legacy security tools and exploit vulnerable touchpoints like login pages, checkouts, and APIs. As ...