Maybe AI-service-blocklist-as-a-service could be a YC company.
replyBetter business model would be some sort of micropayment setup - allow humans, but make scrapers pay a hundredth of a cent for access.
replyIs this similar? https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/
replyYep. It will be interesting to see if things move that way or not. AI scraping might get annoying but a lot of sites (eg e-commerce) have obvious incentives to allow AIs to scrape them for free (or even pay AI companies to prioritize them, like they already do with Google).
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