Yeah, I was waiting for "how are they going to shove AI into this?" and boom there it is halfway down the page. No content here (obvious problem: how does paying Reddit Inc to allow scraping result in money going to the person who created the content? shrug). Just more AI hype to get investor cash before the bubble bursts. Woopie.

Edit: Re-read it and just noticed this:

> assuming the AI companies are willing to step up, support the ecosystem, and pay for the content that is the most valuable to them

Lolllllll. Y'all are gonna love my pitch for an airline startup. It begins, "assuming we can turn off gravity..."

If Cloudflare demonstrates it can reliably distinguish AI scraper traffic from human traffic, then they will be able to force AI companies to step up, no assumption necessary. Still a big if, but (this one clause you quoted notwithstanding) it doesn't read to me like they're relying on the goodwill of AI companies.

Waiting for the day when I can cash out my reddit karma for USD