Patreon is implementing stricter measures to prevent AI bots from scraping its platform's content for training purposes. In partnership with Cloudflare, the company is moving from simply requesting AI bots not to scrape via robots.txt files to actively blocking them. This change comes as AI scraping has become more sophisticated and poses a risk to creators' work, especially with Patreon's introduction of new discovery tools that could expose more content. The new approach aims to give creators more control over how their work is utilized by AI companies. AI
IMPACT This move by Patreon signals a growing trend of content platforms actively defending against unauthorized AI training data ingestion, potentially impacting the availability of diverse datasets for AI model development.
RANK_REASON A company implements a new policy and technical measures to control access to its platform's content by AI bots.
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