Cloudflare's CEO Wants to Save the Web From Ai's Oligarchs
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Cloudflare's CEO proposes a plan to save the web from AI oligarchs, sparking discussion on the impact of AI on content monetization and the future of the web.
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The problem this creates, however, is that there are no ads when AI chatbots give you the answer.
So close.
(Please don't.)
What do you think is missing from Prince’s pay-per-crawl to fully bridge the gap between user experience and sustainable content monetization?
I'm curious to hear your take on this. Do you think new, simple sustainable content models will emerge to support the diverse content the current web offers, or are we heading for a significant consolidation of information where only the largest players can survive?
I am thinking along the lines of a new open protocol for for-profit web content, content creators could even be paid on the DNS level. Technical users can roll their own SSCP(simple-sustainable-content-protocol(s)) linked with a blockchain wallet or other and every user's browser will have a SSCP wallet for content spends.
Always enjoy your thoughtful perspectives.
Step 1: News journalists offer an LLM friendly private API to OpenAI and others. Maybe they create some special templated markdown articles.
Step 2: OpenAI offers a subscription add-on: Want up to date news for your chat sessions? Pay $5/month, and we will give a bundled "News" tool from various paywalled journals. Maybe NYTimes and Economist and whatnot.
Step 3: Now, you can ask ChatGPT to give you current events in the morning.
Now you can imagine this sort of market for other useful things as well. Basically, selling curated information to chat bots.
You can play around with the exact arrows here. Maybe you instead buy an LLM access key directly from NYTimes, and then you can plug it into multiple chat providers.
The idea is that you create a market for first-party LLM MCP or similar. Like maybe one for YouTube tooling bundled together with YouTube premium.
I'm not sure what people would pay for. But I think it should be centred around curation and new information somehow.