Cloudflare's CEO warns that the internet is facing a crisis as AI and the "click-free" trend cause websites to gradually lose their livelihood.
Báo Khoa học và Đời sống•19/05/2025
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, said that AI is accelerating the collapse of the search-based web model . (Image: Fortune) Previously, for every two times Google crawled the site, there would be one return visit to the original website . (Image: New Atlas) Currently, it takes six scans to generate one visit, even though the number of scans hasn't decreased. (Image: indiatoday) Approximately 75 percent of Google queries are now resolved directly on the search results page without requiring a click on a link. (Image: Torro Media) AI synthesizes information from websites and provides answers, but gives nothing back to the content creator. (Image: Bain & Company) Prince warned that if this trend continues, content creators will stop writing and the web ecosystem will collapse. (Image: CSO Online) Cloudflare, which supports the infrastructure for approximately 30 percent of the internet, acknowledges that it must participate in finding solutions. (Image: RevLocal) The pressing question now is, if there are no more human writers, what will AI rely on to continue to exist? (Image: Digital Science)
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