A recent dispute between Cloudflare and AI search startup Perplexity has sparked debate over how AI agents interact with websites—and where the boundaries should be drawn. The controversy centers on accusations that Perplexity’s AI is bypassing standard web protocols to scrape and summarize content without permission. The Core of the Conflict Cloudflare, a leading web […]
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Cloudflare Launches ‘Pay per Crawl’ to Help Websites Monetize AI Access.
In a bold move set to reshape the digital content economy, Cloudflare has launched a new feature called “Pay per Crawl”, allowing website owners to monetize access to their content when it is scraped or indexed by AI bots and crawlers. This comes as AI companies increasingly rely on publicly available web content to train […]
