Matthew Prince's mental models

Their wordsInstead of being a fair trade, the web is being stripmined by AI crawlers with content creators seeing almost no traffic and therefore almost no value.

Their wordsThat content is the fuel that powers AI engines, and so it's only fair that content creators are compensated directly for it.

Their wordsHard cases make bad law. This is a hard case and we would caution anyone from seeing it as setting precedent.

Their wordsBut given the significant impact of our services on the availability and security of the Internet, we believe removing our services from Russia altogether would do more harm than good.

Their wordsBut it’s also critical to realize that the right solution to that current conundrum isn’t that no one pays, it’s that, new or old, everyone who benefits from the ecosystem should contribute back to it based on their relative size.