United Kingdom, April 1 -- Bots and AI are replacing human users as the main source of internet traffic.

According to new research, automated traffic grew almost eight times faster than human activity in 2025.

CEO of Human Security Stu Solomon, whose company's State of AI Traffic report unveiled the findings, said: "The internet as a whole was created with this very basic notion that there's a human being on the other side of the computer screen, and that notion is very rapidly being replaced."

In the report, AI-driven traffic is spit into three categories based on how the automated systems are interacting with the websites.

Training crawlers, which dominated with a share of 67.5 percent, primarily collect data for the purpose of buil...