Comment by postalcoder

This is interesting. The reasoning and response don't line up.

  > Cloudflare is making the change to protect original content on the internet, Mr. Prince said. If A.I. companies freely use data from various websites without permission or payment, people will be discouraged from creating new digital content, he said

  >  prohibited except for the purpose of [..] artificial intelligence retrieval augmented generation 

This seems to be targeted at taxing training of language models, but why an exclusion for the RAG stuff? That seems like it has a much greater immediate impact for online content creators, for whom the bots are obviating a click.