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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

New Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic

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New Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic

www.fastly.com

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New Fastly Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic | Fastly
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SAN FRANCISCO – August 19, 2025 – Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today released its Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report, exposing a striking shift in the nature and scale of automated web traffic. Analysis of traffic from mid-April to mid-July shows that AI crawlers made up almost 80% of all AI bot traffic observed, with Meta generating more than half and eclipsing both Google and OpenAI combined.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36083939

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    So 20% of AI bot traffic are people?

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      20% of the AI isn’t crawlers.

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        Maybe I don’t actually know what crawlers means in this context. I always thought crawlers were bots. Are there bots that aren’t crawlers? If so what are they?

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          Absolutely no idea.

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