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

(positiveblue.substack.com)
454 points positiveblue | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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avtar ◴[29 Aug 25 17:07 UTC] No.45066688[source]▶
> An allowlist run by ONE company?

An allowlist run by one company that site owners chose to engage with. But the irony of taking an ideological stance about fairness while using AI generated comics for blog posts…

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positiveblue ◴[29 Aug 25 17:44 UTC] No.45067197[source]▶
> 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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avtar ◴[29 Aug 25 17:52 UTC] No.45067291[source]▶
> 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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positiveblue ◴[29 Aug 25 18:03 UTC] No.45067418{3}[source]▶
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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1. ryukoposting ◴[30 Aug 25 11:28 UTC] No.45073757{4}[source]▶
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.