The other obvious solution is a "web of trust" where Cloudflare just tells you "this request goes in, this one goes out".
I think the paying approach is superior (after all you make money out of people using your service) but Cloudflare is a straight forward/simpler one.
Aren't you paying for me to use the site, too? Or Google? Isn't the point of paying for a web hosting service to distribute information?
Yes, but there is a "free lunch" problem. I can run a script that hits your page costing you X at a fraction of the cost for me (the user)
*Edit: typo
I think the whole internet is a free lunch problem as far as that goes. I pay for web hosting because I consider the cost to be worth it to send my fabulous opinions into the ether.
The premise of this thread is that somehow the LLM builders are reading too much. I bet it's less than google.
I continue to believe, if you don't want everyone in the world to see and use your stuff, don't put it on the internet.
It seems like a good fit for micropayments. They never took off with people but machines may be better suited for them.
L402 can help here.
https://l402.org