September 23, 2024: Cloudflare to Monetize AI Scraping for Websites - Cloudflare will launch a marketplace where websites can charge AI model providers for scraping their content. The initiative aims to give publishers control and compensation, ensuring sustainability in the AI era. As a precursor, Cloudflare introduced AI Audit, free tools to monitor and selectively block AI web scrapers. This move counters issues of unethical AI scraping and offers smaller publishers opportunities to license their content.
