Autonomous Al agents are going to kill the ad-supported web. When do advertisers realize they're paying for bot views?

We talk a lot about Al taking jobs, but what about Al taking humans that fund the internet? Right now, autonomous browsing agents and LLMS are doing the reading for us. You ask an Al to research a topic, and its agent goes out, scrapes 20 articles, ignores the display ads, bypasses the affiliate links, and hands you a neat summary. The entire free web runs on the "attention economy" (CPM and CPC). If human eyeballs never actually load the publisher's site, ad impressions either don't trigger, or worse, they do trigger, but advertisers are paying to show ads to a headless browser that will never buy their product. It seems like we are heading toward a cliff: 1. Publishers lose their ad revenue and go bankrupt (or lock everything behind aggressive paywalls). 2. Advertisers realize their metrics are polluted by autonomous Al bots and pull their budgets. 3.the open web stops being profitable to maintain Major platforms have already locked down their APIs to Tight this, but what happens to the remaining the free web, or will ad networks find a way to inject ads directly into our personal Al agents?