publishers

5 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2025 by Ranjan Roy · across every show →

Everything said about publishers, oldest first

Jun 9, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Roy: OpenAI's business model depends on not negotiating with every publisher
“They feasibly cannot talk to every single publisher and have a conversation, have a request. Like, their business model is dependent on not having those conversations”
Ranjan Roy Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 55:17 Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
Aug 13, 2025 negative
Insight
Prince: AI content licensing fails if competitors get content for free
“What I know won't work is if open AI is paying for your content, but you're giving it away for free to everyone else.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 43:18 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Aug 13, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Prince: Crawler paywalls will create a dynamic marketplace for content
“And so that's the sort of thing where I think a marketplace over time can develop where original valuable content will get compensated and there will be a clearing price in the market once we have that scarcity that's created by that wall.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 39:14 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Aug 13, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Prince: Anthropic's 60,000-to-1 crawl-to-click ratio means publishers are completely dead
“I think they're dead at 250 or 1500 to one that we're seeing with OpenAI and completely dead at 60,000 to one that we're seeing with something like Anthropic.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 8:28 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
Sep 2, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Prince: Web Crawls Per Publisher Referral Click Doubled Over Past Year
“Everything has gotten basically, assuming you're a publisher, from the publisher's perspective it's gotten twice as bad. They just double every one of those numbers over the last year.”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 23:19 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
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