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 threadnixCraft 🐧Jul 1, 2025
A handful of billionaire brats created this mess so they can stop paying people salaries and increase their bottomline. Every job replaced by stupid AI must be compensated by paying taxes. While we're at it, take away all their billions too. They don't need it. The rule should be like you can hoard a maximum of $100 million (I'm being generous here), and the rest must go back to society to fix all other problems like climate, health, food and infrastructure. No human should hoard this much $$$s
Show threadUrzlJul 1, 2025

@nixCraft 20:1 compensation ratio from top to bottom, by law. Tax all compensation in excess of the ratio at 100%. They can pay it pay it back as wages to their employees or as taxes to the state but they can't keep it to themselves.

See if we can temper their mania by forcing them to share with the guy who sweeps their offices, even if they fire some programmers in the meantime. They can have their automation if I can have a living wage regardless.

Show threadPasswordsarehard4
@gooba42 @nixCraft make them add in subcontractors and you’ve got my vote. You don’t get to not count the guy who mops your floors because they work for sparkle janitorial instead of floor dirtier.
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Show threadUrzlJul 1, 2025
@passwordsarehard4 @nixCraft I think that legislation is more complicated but I'm not against it by any means.