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AI bots are rapidly taking over online traffic, surging 300% in the past year, according to a new report by cybersecurity and cloud computing company Akamai Technologies.
As per the Digital Fraud and Abuse Report 2025, these bots generate billions of requests, disrupting digital operations and skewing analytics. “They now compose nearly 1% of total bot traffic across Akamai’s platform,” the company said.
The spike is being driven largely by content scraping, where bots automatically copy website content without permission. This is hurting…
