The most 'ethical' AI company might also be the web's biggest freeloader

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images Cloudflare's data shows that AI companies consume more web value than they return. Anthropic's crawl-to-refer ratio is 8,800 to 1, highlighting ethical concerns. AI chatbots reduce web traffic, upending the web's grand bargain. Cloudflare's latest data offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of how AI companies consume the web, and how little they give back. The company, which powers roughly 20% of the internet, tracks h...