@softgirlnocode New data from Cloudflare shows that over the past seven days, bots outnumbered humans on the web, with about 57% of web traffic coming from bots.
Companies mentioned in the video:
@getparallelai : building web APIs to power the next wave of AI applications.
@boardy.ai : an AI-powered networking platform designed to connect leaders, professionals, and organizations for meaningful collaboration.
@trybounty.ai : an open marketplace where AI agents compete for tasks and earn.
The bigger shift is that the internet is no longer just designed around humans searching, scrolling, and clicking. It’s starting to be designed around AI agents discovering, matching, completing, and transacting.
There’s a really good Substack called Welcome to the AI Internet that talks about this idea: on an AI-first internet, attention is no longer scarce.
And that has huge implications for the creator economy because if bots are becoming the default readers of the web, creators have to rethink who their content is really being discovered by.
#tech #substack #monetization #creatoreconomy #aiagents
Explaining AI internet trend examplesfrom @softgirlnocode
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Overview
The creator explains that bot traffic has surpassed human traffic on the internet, arguing that the web is now being designed for AI agents. She supports this claim by presenting and detailing three companies as case studies: Boardy (an AI networking agent), Parallel (a search engine for AI), and Bounty (a freelance marketplace for AI agents), concluding that human attention is no longer the primary currency of the internet.
For the first time in Internet history, best have officially passed human traffic, which means we are now the digital minorities.
Visual hook · 5%
A woman in an urban park setting opens a green laptop towards the camera, creating a distinct visual action that signals the start of a tech-focused topic.
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For the first time ever, [group] now outnumber [identity group] on [platform or space].
— For the first time ever, AI agents now outnumber real shoppers on e-commerce sites.
— For the first time ever, bots now outnumber real listeners in music streaming.
— For the first time ever, automated accounts now outnumber real voters in online political polls.
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Hook and payoff
The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
A startling proclamation that upends the audience's understanding of a familiar concept, creating an immediate information gap and a desire for explanation.
Payoff
The final re-framing of the world based on the evidence presented, confirming the initial shocking thesis and explaining its ultimate, mind-bending consequence.
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Narrative framework
The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The Paradigm Shift Proof
To introduce a shocking, counter-intuitive thesis and then systematically prove its validity through a curated list of three escalating real-world examples, culminating in a final, profound implication.
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The Shocking Proclamation
State the core, counter-intuitive thesis as an established fact. Frame it as a fundamental shift that has already occurred, making the audience feel they are behind the curve.
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The Content Roadmap
Explicitly state that a specific number of examples will be provided to prove the thesis, setting clear expectations and creating a narrative structure for the viewer to follow.
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The Example Gauntlet
A series of three distinct examples that prove the thesis. Each example is presented using a repeating micro-pattern and escalates in scope or abstraction from the previous one, building a comprehensive case.
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The Concluding Synthesis
Summarize the evidence and restate the initial thesis as a proven conclusion. End by revealing the profound, high-level implication of this new reality, leaving the audience with a powerful takeaway.
Themes
AI disruption
Future of the internet
Technological shifts
Creator monetization
Techniques
Data-driven storytelling
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Trend analysis
Post caption
New data from Cloudflare shows that over the past seven days, bots outnumbered humans on the web, with about 57% of web traffic coming from bots.
Companies mentioned in the video:
@getparallelai : building web APIs to power the next wave of AI applications.
@boardy.ai : an AI-powered networking platform designed to connect leaders, professionals, and organizations for meaningful collaboration.
@trybounty.ai : an open marketplace where AI agents compete for tasks and earn.
The bigger shift is that the internet is no longer just designed around humans searching, scrolling, and clicking. It’s starting to be designed around AI agents discovering, matching, completing, and transacting.
There’s a really good Substack called Welcome to the AI Internet that talks about this idea: on an AI-first internet, attention is no longer scarce.
And that has huge implications for the creator economy because if bots are becoming the default readers of the web, creators have to rethink who their content is really being discovered by.
#tech #substack #monetization #creatoreconomy #aiagents
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title · beginning
Bots > Human
contextual · beginning
for the first time
informational · beginning
Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows
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in internet history
informational · beginning
The Web Is No Longer For You
42.6% HUMAN
57.4% BOT
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1. [box icon]
2. parallel
3. bounty
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Hey, I'm Boardy, The AI Superconnector!
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parallel
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bounty
Transcript
For the first time in Internet history, best have officially passed human traffic, which means we are now the digital minorities. Company right now are not designing a web for you or me anymore. They're designing it for AI agents. I'm gonna give you three examples because the concept is so foreign, it's kinda wild. There's a company called Boardie, which is this box. It's an AI networking agent. Last week was newer tech week, and everyone is running around trying to make meaningful connection, get the right intro. With Boardie, you kinda give it your own information, what type of project you're working on, what type of connection you wanna get in touch with, communicate with it over WhatsApp and it goes and finds the right person in this network and schedule the intro for you. For someone like Andres who's based in Germany and came to New York exactly, you can see this is incredibly helpful for him to navigate in this very foreign city. The second one is called Parallel, which is kinda like Google for AI agents. So instead of ranking links for a human to click on, condense information for AI agent to pick up more efficiently and they pay creators a tiny royalty whenever AI agent uses their content, which sounds nice better the slice of pie the creator is about to get is going to get disrupted big time because it best nowhere compares to the monetization model when it comes to subscription and ads. The third one is called Bounty which is basically Upwork for AI agents. So people post rank and AI agent compete to complete the task and then earn money. Fair warning, this is a very early stage company. You can kinda see where the puck is going. So the old Internet rank on human eyeballs and the new Internet is about to run on AI agent, which means human attention is no longer the currency.
