> But the reality is how can someone small protect their blog or content from AI training bots?
A paywall.
In reality, what some want is to get all the benefits of having their content on the open internet while still controlling who gets to access it. That is the root cause here.
This. We need to get rid of the ad-supported free internet economy. If you want your content to be free, you release it and have no issues with AI. If you want to make money of your content, add a paywall.
We need micropayments going forward, Lightning (Bitcoin backend) could be the solution.
> If you want your content to be free, you release it and have no issues with AI. If you want to make money of your content, add a paywall.
What about licenses like CC-BY-NC (Creative Commons - Non Commercial)?
What about them? As we can see scrapers don’t care about copyright at all, so public licenses don’t really matter to them either.
Which is really all that cloudflare is building here that people are mad about. It’s a way to give bots access to paywalled content.
Where everyone needs a cloudflare account to be able to pay*
“Everyone” in this context being bot operators who want to access websites who have decided to use cloudflare to block unauthenticated bot traffic.
Which is not everyone.