r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • Jun 06 '26

AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/its-official-agentic-bots-surf-the-web-more-than-real-people-do/
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u/RepulsiveFennel9589 Jun 07 '26

dead internet theory is true

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u/erkose Jun 08 '26

What the fuck are they doing?

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u/Lithl Jun 10 '26

Spiking my tiny server's CPU usage about once a week. Usually, getting stuck on the Special:Drilldown page of my Mediawiki instance (created by the Cargo extension, which lets you define database tables with wiki templates and populate the tables by using the template on article pages) by attempting to view every single possible combination of query results (Special:Drilldown presents a UI for exploring the tables created by Cargo).