Dead Internet Theory was partly right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% | Fortune https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/ The dead internet theory has floated around internet forums since the 2010s, and the idea that the internet is dominated by non-human activity was often dismissed as a fringe conspiracy. Now it has become a measurable fact.