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AI-driven traffic nearly tripled in 2025. AI agent traffic grew 7,851%. HUMAN's 2026 benchmark report analyzes more than one quadrillion interactions to map the rise of agentic AI, the threat landscape evolving alongside it, and what organizations need to know.
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Automated traffic—all non-human internet traffic—is growing eight times faster than human traffic, AI-driven traffic—traffic generated by or on behalf of AI systems—is the fastest-growing category of internet traffic, and for the first time, AI systems are not just reading the web but transacting on it.

  • fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    28·
    9 hours ago

    When I played Cyberpunk 2077, I thought the concept of the Blackwall was interesting, but a bit far fetched. A giant firewall to protect human networks from malicious AIs that got out of control on the internet? Nah.

    Now I don’t think so anymore.

    • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      except that blackwall was put there by corporations to protect their interests(malicious ai not messing everything up). Here we need that kind of blackwall to protect our interest against corporations which are essentially the malicious entities. But I wonder if non-corporate people/groups can even consider such projects anymore let alone maintain them so it would protect more than couple of people or small groups. It seems to me humanity in the west has lost the community spirit completely. Even fediverse feels more like fading embers that still warm you. Its just everyone for themselves and maybe their own little clique.

      i would really love to be wrong.

      • Specter@piefed.socialEnglish
        51·
        6 hours ago

        At this point The Great Firewall is looking more like it’s protecting people from this AI slop. I have no idea how websites are in China, but I think I would be okay with Europe raising a great firewall against US owned companies.

        The damage US far-right influencers (along with Russian funding of parties) is doing in Europe cannot be underestimated.

      • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
        518·
        9 hours ago

        It’s made to counter US propaganda. In fact, any nation that doesn’t protect their information ‘borders’ are candy for US 3 letter agencies and their manipulation of their peoples information/values.

        Have a firewall or succumb to US manipulation of your citizens. It’s that easy, so no wonder US have created the ‘bad bad firewall’ sentiment.

        Oc people can’t rely on their governments only (especially in the West), so we must also have an information firewall that can reject pure propaganda nonsense before it reaches us. Moving from Reddit to Lemmy was a small step in that direction.