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There's no hard facts about what the hell they're actually planning, it's just a fluff press release.
They claim that PACTs will be some sort of token that sites and services that can confirm you are a human or "trusted AI agent" can grant you to allow other sites to better identify you as good, but that these tokens will also somehow be entirely anonymous and unable to be used to track an identity across multiple sites and services. At absolute best this will create a sort of "chain of trust" hierarchy where people who use more popular services tied to their real identity would gather more PACTs or have "higher trust" ones, just consolidating digital power further.
Also, the first quote from Cloudflare's CTO has them claiming that people are starting to use AI agents to order them meal deliveries. Lmao, in what universe?
WELL, aKchUaLLy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSv0cDcCOlI
Joke video but relevant.