Flutterby™! : Cloudflare CEO on spidering and traffic

Over on LinkedIn, Johannes Ernst posted Crazy Stupid Tech: Cloudflare’s CEO wants to save the web from AI’s oligarchs. Here’s why his plan isn’t crazy. Lots of good stuff in there, but this bit:

With the Perplexity thing what’s crazy is that because we’re blocking them from being able to get access to the content, they’re now going to Trade Desk and pulling down the summary of the headline and a summary of the content and writing it as if People magazine, or the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal actually wrote it.

So we're seeing a trend towards less and less information in headlines (gotta get that click), and this strategy seems like LLM users are gonna see misinformation on a scale that Fox and NewsMax users can only hint at.