AI Scraping is Turning into Real Bills
metehan777 · x · 2026-07-16
The post echoes an observation related to the "Dead Internet Theory": rather than just bots talking to each other, we can now directly see the real financial bills caused by AI scraping. It notes that while AI users might pay for ChatGPT, website owners have to pay for every crawl hit recorded by Cloudflare.\n\nThe core argument is that on a site with roughly 1 billion pages, scraping has become a measurable and billable operational cost, reshaping the traffic and access economy of the AI era.
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