Cloudflare's latest AI rankings expose the web's biggest free rider

Cloudflare's data reveals Anthropic's AI bots have the highest crawl-to-refer ratio, scraping webpages 2,800 times for every referral, far exceeding OpenAI and others. DuckDuckGo shows a more balanced ratio of 3 scrapes per referral, while Anthropic's practices raise concerns about the web's economic model as AI companies prioritize content extraction over traffic generation.