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Posted by soheilpro 5 hours ago

Monetization Gateway(blog.cloudflare.com)
137 points | 67 commentspage 2
babelfish 2 hours ago|
The upside of using this is that AI shops might pay you for your content. Realistically, they just won't use your content, there is more than enough free (or synthetic) data out there. Not even to mention their contracts with firms like Mercor etc.

I guess I don't understand who this is for. If you want your worldview reflected in the latest generations of models, you probably wouldn't use this. If you don't want your worldview reflected in the models, why would a few pennies change your mind?

hungryhobbit 2 hours ago||
I think that's a pretty wild statement: there isn't just one type of content!

Twilight fan fiction? Claude probably won't pay for that.

But critical programming documentation that its bots (and their human users) rely on to do their daily job ? You better believe Anthropic will pay for that (instead of letting another AI pay for it, and steal all their customers).

babelfish 2 hours ago||
Sure, they'll probably pay PyPi, the Swift Foundation, etc for that documentation - but it's a pretty small universe of relevant content. An interns tech blog with a 'hello world in javascript' post won't be paid for, the Mercor contractors are doing more (and better) than that!
lurkshark 2 hours ago||
I don’t think this is aimed at the labs and pre-training, it’s aimed at end users and their agents. Like if you’re a news site the paying customer isn’t a lab scraping your articles for training, it’s an end user that asked their agent to lookup the news of the day
babelfish 2 hours ago||
But as an end user, I don't want to pay for the news of the day, regardless of if I look it up myself or my agent looks it up!
carlosjobim 1 hour ago||
Of course nobody wants to pay for anything, and you like me would like to be given everything for free without having to give anything in exchange. But why would somebody want to give it for free?
babelfish 1 hour ago||
I can read the news for free right now!
verall 2 hours ago||
I can't wait for the deluge of AI generated agent-optimized webpages competing to trick your agent into giving them micropennies.
mrsssnake 1 hour ago||
Internet needs an open, integrated and universal payment layer. But first the payments should be done well (look at: Taler project), then integrations should be build, not the other way around.

I know many people here would be against anything related to payment on the Internet, but I do believe the ability to have a button like "One click here to anonymously with no account pay 0.02€ and download the media" could be a net positive for Internet freedom.

sourcecodeplz 3 hours ago||
CloudFlare launching the new AdSense for the AI scrape wars age
dgudkov 2 hours ago||
We need standards and protocols, not another megacorp inserting itself between people. Micropayments should be part of the HTTP protocol.
wenbin 3 hours ago||
It’s a great way for developers or ai agents to test drive an API without creating and account and getting an API key from the api provider.

This could also make abusing use / DDoS attack very costly

dqv 2 hours ago||
Precursor to age verification gateway.

In the future, an AGEnt will attest that you are old enough to access the resource.

m-hodges 2 hours ago||
> This reality demands a new model: usage-based pricing for everything.

Oh boy!

Catloafdev 3 hours ago||
This feels like a 'Horse Armor' moment.

I expect much more of this type of thing going forward.

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