The web is being rebuilt for machines that read it for you
More than half of internet traffic is now software, not people, as AI helpers increasingly do the browsing on our behalf. One of the companies that runs a big slice of the internet just launched a way for any website to charge these AI visitors each time they pull its content, because a reader sent by AI never sees an ad or buys a subscription. This quietly changes who gets paid online, and anyone who publishes for a living should start asking how their work earns its keep when a machine, not a person, is the one reading it.
For youIf you make content, check whether your best pages are being read by AI helpers, and think about what that access should be worth to you.
Data: Cloudflare
Source: Cloudflare ↗