Apr 17
CEO predicts ‘next golden era’ for content amid legacy media destruction
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicts that while AI will disrupt legacy media, it will increase the value of granular, local journalism. He notes that his local newspaper is already seeing higher revenue from licensing content to AI companies than from digital media.
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Licensing revenue from AI training may become a more viable survival model for local journalism than traditional digital advertising.
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