The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch

Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by positiveblue on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:44PM (#45067197)

> An allowlist run by one company that site owners chose to engage with.

Exactly, no problem with that, just hinting that's not a protocol.

> But the irony of taking an ideological stance about fairness while using AI generated comics for blog posts

Wait, what?

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by avtar on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:52PM (#45067291)

> Wait, what?

I was referring to the following image:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRK-!,w_1250,h_703,c...

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by positiveblue on Friday August 29, 2025 @02:03PM (#45067418)

I know the image, what I do not understand is the argument between using it being incompatible with "fairness" and "openness"

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by jaredcwhite on Friday August 29, 2025 @02:59PM (#45068032)

GenAI image generation is not fair.

also: “Cloudelare” ;-P

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by ryukoposting on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:28AM (#45073757)

I can't speak for the other commenter, but I think companies like Midjourney and OpenAI are robber barons exploiting people's creative work in ways that obviously aren't fair, but that our legal system wasn't equipped to prevent.

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