I am seeing from these comments that my proposed solution was pretty naïve. I intended this blog post to be a sort of thought experiment to challenge assumptions made about the web pre-AI rather than my thought up technical solution to be the main focus.

I might go back and re-write some of this post to gear the focus more towards my main points of the social contract between bot and human shifting (especially with copyleft/ShareAlike), the web becoming less “open”, how this is not a new idea since the DMCA already considers standards for automated access, etc.