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80% of major AI companies are customers of Cloudflare.
It has become 10 times harder for a piece of content to get a click from Google search results compared to 10 years ago due to features like answer boxes and AI overviews.
It is 750 times harder for content to get a click-through from an OpenAI model compared to the historical performance of Google search.
A Pew Research study found that when Google displays an AI overview at the top of search results, users are much less likely to click on the underlying links.
It is 30,000 times harder for content to get a click-through from an Anthropic model compared to the historical performance of Google search.
Matthew Prince predicts a future where large AI companies might vertically integrate content creation by hiring their own journalists, researchers, and academics to fill knowledge gaps, creating silos of information.
Matthew Prince argues that a functioning marketplace for AI training data cannot emerge until Google is forced to operate under the same content access rules as all other AI companies.
Matthew Prince asserts that the web's primary interface is shifting away from search towards AI.
On July 1st, Cloudflare began blocking AI training crawlers by default for all its customers as part of its 'Content Independence Day' initiative.
Matthew Prince predicts that models with the capabilities of the current generation of ChatGPT will be running locally on iPhones and Android devices in the near future.
Matthew Prince believes that Google's business model, which incentivized content creators to maximize traffic, led to negative societal outcomes like clickbait and rage-bait media from companies like Huffington Post, Demand Media, and BuzzFeed.
In 2020, Cloudflare partnered with NVIDIA to deploy GPUs at the edge of its network for inference, but the product received no customer interest at the time.