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Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl
Cloudflare's program also gives them the flexibility to charge some bots while letting other bots scrape for free. This lets publishers that have negotiated deals with AI companies to allow approved scraping while still protecting their content from companies that have not yet struck licensing deals.
Content Creators, Want to Charge or Block AI Crawlers? Here’s Cloudflare’s Solution
Cloudflare’s new model is an attempt to put the control of online content back into the hands of its original creators and owners. It follows a similar attempt by Creative Commons, which recently unveiled a new framework meant to compensate creators when their work is used for AI training.
The internet architecture provider will also let some publishers make known AI scrapers pay to crawl their sites.
Tired of all of those "smart ass AI crawlers" meddling with your content? Well, it's going to happen regardless, but at least ...
Cloudflare has announced that its new "pay per crawl" model, which charges AI crawlers for data, is in beta, and site owners can now enroll.
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