Comment by mhandley

11 days ago

That sounds reasonable for access to actual content, but it produces a huge new incentive to constantly produce vast amounts of AI-generated slop served via Cloudflare. Is there a way to disincentivize this?

Thats a more general problem. As content gets cheaper to produce with AI, how do consumers discriminate between good content and slop. We already have this problem with youtube and twitter and reddit

Its interesting that the AI companies will now be on the other end of this issue

I presume the onus will now be on the AI scrapers to decide whether that AI-slop site is worth paying for. How they will figure this out will be interesting to see.