AI Hustle: Make Money from AI and ChatGPT, Midjourney, NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI Monetizing AI Scraping: Cloudflare's New Marketplace
Jul 4, 2025
Discover how Cloudflare's new marketplace empowers website owners to charge AI bots for data scraping. The discussion highlights the challenges content creators face in the era of AI, emphasizing the exploitation of their work. Explore the innovative 'pay per crawl' model and its potential to revolutionize monetization strategies. The implications for artists in music licensing add another layer to this intriguing conversation about the future of information access and data monetization.
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Seahorse Blog Scraping Story
- Jamie shares a story about a dedicated blog owner in a niche like seahorse fishing losing traffic due to AI search scraping their data.
- This illustrates how creators lose income and offers context for the need to monetize scraping instead of only blocking it.
Cloudflare's Unique Position
- Cloudflare sits uniquely between public users and most major websites making it ideal to manage AI bot detection.
- They enable bot detection and monetization, offering a new way to control AI scraping at scale for small and large publishers alike.
Future of AI Agent Monetization
- Future AI agents will negotiate rates to crawl data live for specific business needs, not just mass scraping for LLM training.
- Monetization might extend to these agents, opening new revenue streams for content owners beyond traditional scraping.