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How AI is breaking the internet (and what to do about it) | Matthew Prince

Aug 18, 2026 · 16m

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For the past 30 years, surviving as an internet business meant getting people to click on your website. But AI is now making that thousands of times harder, says Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet networks. He makes the provocative case for a different deal — whereby tech companies actually pay people for creating content that feeds their AI models. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.