Cloudflare Pushes 'Pay Per Use' to Make AI Companies Pay for Scraped Content
kimmonismus · x · 2026-07-30
Cloudflare's Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen discusses a core issue facing the open web: how creators and publishers can get paid when AI companies use their content without sending traffic back.
She details Cloudflare's shift from 'Pay Per Crawl' to 'Pay Per Use' and introduces new controls for AI bots. The conversation also touches on the tension between Google Search and AI answers, and whether independent creators can actually benefit from a new licensing economy for the web.
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