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1 day agoCloudflare offers to make AI pay to crawl websites
For decades, the Internet has operated on a simple exchange: search engines index content and direct users back to original websites, generating traffic and ad revenue for websites of all sizes. This cycle rewards creators that produce quality content with money and a following, while helping users discover new and interesting information. That model is now broken. AI crawlers collect content like text, articles, and images to generate answers, without sending visitors to the original source - depriving content creators of revenue, and the satisfaction of knowing someone is reading their content.
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