Patreon Blocks AI Training Scraping
On 17 July, TechCrunch reported that Patreon had begun blocking AI bots after previously asking them to avoid scraping creators’ work. Patreon is working with Cloudflare to stop bots from collecting creators’ content without permission for AI model training.
Cloudflare says the approach allows sites to remain discoverable in search while disallowing AI training. TechCrunch reports that Cloudflare has given AI companies until 15 September to distinguish search crawlers from crawlers used for AI training and agents. Companies that fail to separate them risk default blocking across many publisher sites.
Taking the report as factual, impact is 0%. Patreon creators gain an additional technical barrier against unauthorised AI training, and AI companies face tighter access to their content. The score indicates no broader measured impact from this event.
Watch whether AI companies separate their search, training and agent crawlers by 15 September, and whether Cloudflare subsequently blocks non-compliant bots by default across publisher sites.
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