The rules of AI training have just changed. By default, Cloudflare will now block AI scrapers across the millions of websites it protects (roughly 24% of all sites on the internet). Any AI company seeking to crawl a Cloudflare-hosted site will have to obtain explicit permission from the content owner. This is the first infrastructure-level defense of its kind. ...
Cloudflare’s Chief Strategy Officer, Stephanie Cohen, framed the new policy as a way to restore balance to the internet economy. The company reports more than one million domains already opted in before the default block was enacted. ...
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