<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Cloudflare introduces a new pay per crawl feature allowing website operators to charge AI developers for content access.</li><li>Website operators define a fee for AI bots accessing their content; Cloudflare aims to prevent unauthorized data scraping and hacking attempts.</li><li>Cloudflare uses public key cryptography to verify AI crawler requests and block malicious activity within the pay per crawl feature.</li><li>Apart from this new feature, Cloudflare also introduced additional AI-focused capabilities like default blocking of AI crawlers and selective blocking of crawlers from pages with ads.</li></ul>

New Cloudflare feature lets websites charge AI developers for content access

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