What if every time your content made an AI smarter—or more profitable—you got paid?
And what if AI had to pay just to access your site in real time?
That’s not how it works today.
AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are trained on public content—your blog posts, tutorials, reviews—often without credit, clicks, or consent.
No traffic back.
No affiliate links preserved.
No attribution.
No payout.
And no real opt-out.
Even with real-time browsing, most AI tools summarize just enough to skip your site entirely. You do the work. AI gets the value.
Cloudflare’s “Pay Per Crawl” is a smart first step—but AI only needs to crawl once to train. After that, you’re out of the loop.
In my latest post, I unpack what’s broken and walk through a solution we can imagine together:
AI-Gatepass.
A collaborative thought experiment with a simple question:
What if creators had control—and royalties?
Read the blog →
https://edwardspeak.com/ai-crawlers-are-mining-your-content-and-paying-you-nothing
Or listen (16 min):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5JGW1nS5mwkQbXPeq9KQle
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