Cloudflare is Making AI Pay for the Data It Scrapes

Content creators and website owners of all sizes deserve to own and have control over their content.
"Content creators and website owners of all sizes deserve to own and have control over their content. If they don’t, the quality of online information will deteriorate or be locked exclusively behind paywalls," said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. This statement marks the company’s stance on a growing issue: AI's unregulated consumption of internet data. Cloudflare, a company once synonymous with internet security and infrastructure, is emerging as a major player in artificial intelligence (AI). Since its inception in 2009, the company has grown far beyond its origins in content delivery networks (CDNs) and DDoS protection, stepping into the AI landscape with the same ambition and innovation that first made it a household name in internet services. But how did Clou
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Anshika Mathews
Anshika is the Senior Content Strategist for AIM Research. She holds a keen interest in technology and related policy-making and its impact on society. She can be reached at anshika.mathews@aimresearch.co
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