I was recently listening to Cloudflare CEO on the Hard Fork podcast. He seemed to be selling a way for content creators to stop AI companies from profiting off such leeching. But the way he laid the whole thing out, adding how they are best placed to do this because they are gatekeepers of X% of the Internet (I don't recall the exact percentage), had me more concerned than I was at the prospect of AI companies being the front of summarised or interpreted consumption.
He went on, upfront — I’d give him that, to explain how he is expecting a certain percentage of that income that will come from enforcing this on those AI companies and when the AI companies pay up to crawl.
Cloudflare already questions my humanity and then every once in a while blocks me with zero recourse. Now they are literally proposing more control and gatekeeping.
Where have we all come on the Internet? Are we openly going back to the wild west of bounty hunters and Pinkertons (in a way)?
He went on, upfront — I’d give him that, to explain how he is expecting a certain percentage of that income that will come from enforcing this on those AI companies and when the AI companies pay up to crawl.
Cloudflare already questions my humanity and then every once in a while blocks me with zero recourse. Now they are literally proposing more control and gatekeeping.
Where have we all come on the Internet? Are we openly going back to the wild west of bounty hunters and Pinkertons (in a way)?