Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly ...

Theory Briefing

• Multiple cybersecurity firms independently agree that bot traffic has overtaken human traffic on the web.
• Advertising and analytics systems were designed around human visitors, making their core measurements unreliable in a bot-majority internet.
• Security systems face the same blind spot — built for human behavior patterns that no longer dominate the traffic they monitor.
• The Dead Internet Theory, once dismissed as fringe, predicted AI agents would hollow out authentic human activity online.