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 :(
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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 threadMy camera shoots fascistsJul 1, 2025

@nixCraft

First, fix the conditions that allow someone to even have that much wealth come their way in the first place. Break up monopolies, force them to pay living wages to all workers, enforce and improve environmental protection laws, and so on. There will be far fewer billionaires or $100-millionaires at that point. Then tax them till their ears bleed. Also tax the Wall Street casino-goers until their ears bleed too.

I don't care how much Bezos gets taxed as much as I don't want him to have that kind of monopoly power. And I want the employees to be paid well and not worked to death.

Show threadComunidad bahá´í de MexicaliJul 6, 2025
@Mikal @nixCraft didn't the top tax rate approx. 90%?
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@Bahais_Mexicali @nixCraft

Pre-Ronald Reagan, yeah, it was something like that.

Jul 6, 2025 at 10:00pmWeb