Creative Commons Shifts to Support Paid Crawling: A Lifesaver for Content Creators in the AI Era or a New Monopoly Risk?
AI chatbots have led to a decline in user traffic, threatening the survival of content creators. The non-profit organization Creative Commons has rarely supported 'paid crawling' technology, aiming to build a sustainable economic model for the content ecosystem. The organization, known for promoting knowledge-sharing licenses, recently proposed building an AI data sharing framework.