Cloudflare is trying to establish itself as the toll station for AI. And anyone who doesn't play by their rules gets excommunicated.

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deadbabe 4 days ago | parent [-]

And what are the rules? Don’t use AI to steal training content across the internet, spread nuclear grade spam and propaganda at scale, hack servers with automated agents? Seems fine.

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pzo 4 days ago | parent [-]

the end game will be ai training bots will have to be:

1) like 1 cent or fraction of cent to get access to page

2) scrawlers will just cache this data on their server or just train on it so will pay just once

3) small content creators will get just make like few dollars our of it

4) CF will get some 10-30% cut from their content semaphore.

5) in the end you small content creator trading their whole content for few dollars but because CF has mass of scale they will make multi millions or more.

	▲	Dylan16807 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unless you have an idea to stop scraping, the status quo is all downside. Everything gets grabbed but also crawlers overwhelm servers.
	▲	deadbabe 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		So… invest in Cloudflare