Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Save the Web From AI?
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told Nilay Patel’s Decoder podcast that automated traffic passed human traffic in May and could reach 1,000 times human traffic within five years. We test his plan to save the web from AI, from default crawler blocks and the 15 September Disallow AI Training switch to HTTP 402 micropayments and a Spotify-style payout, against Cloudflare’s own posts, its earnings and the coverage since, and correct the figures he got wrong.
