Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
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Cloudflare forcing AI crawlers to declare themselves—or get blocked—turns the CDN into a gatekeeper for training data access. If you’re an AI vendor, budget for content licensing or data partnerships; if you’re a publisher, this is new leverage to negotiate value instead of just robots.txt theater.
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