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A podcast interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince explores how AI bots are dominating internet traffic, Cloudflare's strategies to control them, and the implications for the web and business, including layoffs at Cloudflare due to AI.
Elon Musk agrees that the space economy will be crucial for scaling AI compute and handling most internet traffic.
The tweet states that 90% of all internet traffic goes through Erlang-controlled nodes, and Cisco ships 2 million devices per year with Erlang, referencing the Code BEAM STL conference.
Citing a Cloudflare earnings call, Zero Hedge highlights that non-human traffic has surpassed human traffic online and could reach 1,000x human traffic within five years, making humans a rounding error on the internet.
Elon Musk asserts that AI agentic Internet traffic will vastly exceed human usage, endorsing Cloudflare's forecast, with context on global bandwidth and Starlink capacity.
Elon Musk responds to a statistic that Starlink carries ~0.7% of internet traffic, claiming it could carry 50% as AI and robotics massively increase bandwidth demand.
A retrospective on BitTorrent's 25-year history, detailing its creation by Bram Cohen, its role in revolutionizing file-sharing and piracy, and its impact on internet traffic and the entertainment industry.