Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web
THE SO WHAT
If ~58% of web requests are now automated per [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/bots-outnumber-humans-internet-ai-agents-traffic), every metric that assumes a human on the other side—traffic, conversion, abuse, even SEO—just got noisier. Operators should be tagging, rate-limiting, and segmenting bot vs human traffic explicitly, or you’re making decisions on polluted data.
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