I'm not exactly sure what Cloudflare's intentions are, but I’ve got no doubt that billing is a big part of it. And honestly, they’ve got a right to that...

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Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!

> The web is changing. Its business model will change. And, in the process, we have an opportunity to learn from what was great about the web of the last 30 years and what we can make better for the web of the future.

I read this as Cloudflare wants to be in the middle of the revenue stream.

> Imagine an AI engine like a block of swiss cheese. New, original content that fills one of the holes in the AI engine’s block of cheese is more valuable than repetitive, low-value content that unfortunately dominates much of the web today.

I guess they're saying ai should present the original content to people rather than summarize it? Or is it that if content is something novel it should get a boost in search? Or maybe again what they mean is that AI companies should pay people to crawl their pages and the market would naturally lead them to pay more for content that is actually useful to the llm. Probably that one. (it's a weird analogy).