Can Cloudflare Make AI Companies Pay Creators？ With Stephanie Cohen （Cloudflare）

I sat down with Cloudflare's Chief Strategy Officer， Stephanie Cohen， to discuss one of the most important questions facing the open web：

How can creators and publishers get paid when AI companies use their content without sending traffic back？

We talked about Cloudflare's shift from Pay Per Crawl to Pay Per Use， new controls for AI bots， the tension between Google Search and AI answers， and whether independent creators can actually benefit from a new licensing economy for the web.

We also discussed the bigger question： If AI answers continue replacing clicks， what does a sustainable open web look like？