stumu415@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago'Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next yearwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square245linkfedilinkarrow-up1867arrow-down113
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minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoSome agent may do 100 queries for 1 user question, but a single scraper bot will do 100 queries every single second of every single day, and costs less to run than the LLM.
minus-squaremotruck@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoFair point. Scrapping is definitely the low overhead high impact problem.
Some agent may do 100 queries for 1 user question, but a single scraper bot will do 100 queries every single second of every single day, and costs less to run than the LLM.
Fair point. Scrapping is definitely the low overhead high impact problem.