Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!

Cloudflare argues that AI-driven answers are displacing traditional search, depriving publishers of traffic and value, and announces “Content Independence Day”—a shift to blocking AI crawlers by default unless they pay creators. The company also proposes a marketplace to score and compensate content based on how it fills gaps in AI systems, aiming to realign incentives for high-value content as the web’s business model evolves.