Creative Commons Tentatively Supports Pay-to-Crawl Tech for AI

Creative Commons, the nonprofit behind the licensing framework for sharing works while retaining copyright, says it's tentatively supporting pay-to-crawl systems, which would charge AI bots for scraping content. The rationale is that the money would help websites "sustain the creation and sharing of their content" without putting it behind paywalls. However, it cautions against rightsholders exploiting the system without benefit to the original creators.