Can Cloudflare save the web from AI?

Cloudflare discovered in June that bots already make up more than half of internet traffic — and CEO Matthew Prince says that bots could outnumber humans a thousand to one within five years.

That's a huge change to the internet, and if the web is going to keep existing, it needs a huge change to its business model. Can Cloudflare use its place in the ecosystem to direct the money back to the people who make content?

Read the full interview transcript on The Verge.

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How I choose which Cloudflare employees to replace with AI | Wall Street Journal

Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender | Decoder (2024)

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default | The Verge

Patreon partners with Cloudflare to block AI crawlers | 404 Media

Sony and Warner sue Anthropic in latest AI music lawsuit | Billboard

Trump administration supports OpenAI in NYT copyright lawsuit  | The Verge

Google Zero is here — now what? | The Verge (2024)

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