Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that his company has blocked over 416 billion AI bot requests since making it the default option in July of this year after it announced the Content Independence Day initiative. Prince said in an interview with data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-matthew-prince-cloudflare/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-matthew-prince-cloudflare/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Wired that this feature allows website owners to block AI crawlers by default, unless the AI company pays them to gain access to their content.
“The business model of the internet has always been to generate content that drive traffic and then sell either…
