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Antoine
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📚 Internet Archive.org & @EOTArchive.org & FDLP 🏛️ We build tools so the past and future can meet.
Thanks! Gotta Keep Austin Tasty!
Ran in pace group 3.14159…
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I don’t know yet.
And there’s so many more questions.
Will an AI pay for a request to check if there is new content, or simply pay for the request for the new content?
Will sitemaps be the standard resource list?
How will the AI community avoid sites that are charging for spam content?
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you control your own site, you do. If your creations are hosted by a platform or publisher, they can & depending on your contract may share revenue with you.

Pretty cool that @timbl.bsky.social years ago built the 402 status code into the web, and it’s now prime to empower creators
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It doesn’t solve everything about AI but it a tool that implements the plumbing for a web where “if your work is used, you get paid”.

Who sets the price?
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
x402 enables:
Pay as you go monetization
AI agents autonomously pay to access
Paywalls content
Micro-services

When an AI taps into a song, image, video, or text on a site that uses x402, a small payment is required.
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
402 has been largely ignored, people share their web content freely or utilize robust pay to access login systems. However with AI companies scrapping creators works from the live web 402 may soon be utilized. This month Coinbase announced x402.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It’s so cool that you are building/testing this, thank you!
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
SF, Austin, Paris
Or if the tests are ready for events Moz Fest, Missions Publiques
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reposted by Antoine
For background on all this and how Fitzgerald entered the chat, the OIG report is available here: web.archive.org/web/20250818...

Yes, it’s an archive link (which DOJ used in the filing) — the official DOJ Office of Inspector General website is currently offline, as below.

3/3
October 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM