nixCraft 🐧Jul 1, 2025

Cloudflare introduces pay-per-crawl for AI bots https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

We don't need another technical solution to this madness. We need legislation that blocks all batshit crazy AI companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and others from stealing from artists & writers (I'm mean they are using pirated books and getting away with it, so what makes you think they will pay for that blog post or art?). This is like putting a Band-Aid on the problem. They stole everything, and got away with it.

Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

The Cloudflare Blog
Show threadnixCraft 🐧Jul 1, 2025
They stole all your codes, art, books, videos, and everything else out there. This solution doesn't fix anything. It might help newspaper sites where they write fresh news or detailed reports. But that will only be for the top 100 news sites. The rest of the artists and writers are doomed already because there is no law in place. I can't wait to retire, which is a few years away, and never have to look back again. But, it is the next generation of people who are going to struggle a lot :(
Show threadDjumaka
@nixCraft Be gentle to me but I'm a bit in the middle here as I believe it "depends". First book stealing is not nice on any purpose. But if an article is publicly available what is the moral/philosophical difference who/what reads it? I can read an article to get news or I can read a book to learn to write in the same style. Who am I , a student or AI? What's the difference? If I'm a student - may I make money with what I've learned? Yes, with very few rules, of course. So why AI can't?
Jul 1, 2025 at 12:32pmWeb
Show threadDjumakaJul 1, 2025
@nixCraft of course the big BUTT here is - I am not allowed to SELL art that you created, visual or etc that is sooooo close to yours if you own the rights :) Both Human and AI :)