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Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on bot traffic potentially
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on bot traffic potentially reaching 1000x human traffic, reviving HTTP 402 to charge bots, blocking Google, and more
TL;DRCloudflare CEO discusses charging AI bots for web access to combat exploding bot traffic.
Why it matters: Could reshape web economics and AI training costs if industry adopts paid bot access model.
Cloudflare's mission to remake the business of the web for the AI age — Today, I'm talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare.
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