Cloudflare’s chief executive released a statement claiming bot traffic had overtaken human traffic, citing HTML‑only data. The claim contradicts the company’s own dashboard, which shows online traffic remains roughly two‑thirds human.

The CEO’s report ignores the “All” traffic selector and instead highlights a minor AI bucket. In reality, search crawlers dominate bot traffic, outpacing the AI category by a factor of two. The so‑called AI surge largely stems from training scrapers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot.

Cloudflare’s pay‑to‑crawl product appears to drive the narrative, yet the data shows the largest bot group remains search engines. The CEO’s presentation misleads stakeholders about the true scale of bot activity and obscures the real contributors to traffic spikes.