Matthew Prince

Because

Like our business model isn't ads or subscriptions.

Our business model is how do we get more people to use our tools, right?

So we want to make that as easy as possible.

A lot of the internet wants to make that as easy as possible.

And for those people who want to make that as easy as possible, we're not only not blocking the AI crawlers, we're actually making it super easy for you to make it consumable, you know, switch into like code mode, do markup instead of HTML by demand because it consumes fewer tokens, lots of different stuff

to make that much more accessible for those companies or creators or organizations out there that want their stuff to be in the LLMs.

There's a whole other universe, and it largely is based on, is your business model based on ads?

That universe wants the AI companies to have none of their content unless they compensate them in some way because it fundamentally, if they have their content, it's taking it, basically giving people the CliffsNotes versions, which makes it less likely that they're going to go and see the ads and click on it.

So we want to support either side of that.

We're not religious on either of it.

What we're religious about is it's your content and you should have the tools to be able to control who has access to it, either making it super easy or making it super hard.

And then that's kind of the position that we're in.

Content Independence Day was saying, we're going to make these tools available

for everyone regardless of your budget you can use the free version of cloudflare service you eat you should all be able to control who has access to your content and that that was really kind of the line in the sand that we drew last july okay so i'm of split minds about this i suppose so i'm i'm a creator and i'm also a user so from a creator perspective

Yeah, I mean, I guess, again, it comes back to something even simpler, which is if you're not going to the site with your eyeballs, then you're not seeing ads.

If you're not seeing ads, then the website isn't getting paid.

And if the website isn't getting paid, then the person who's creating that content can't eat.

And eventually they're going to stop creating content.

And so like, I get it.