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Cloudflare feature blocks AI training bots while allowing search engines

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Cloudflare has introduced a new feature enabling websites to prevent AI bots from using their content for training purposes. This functionality allows publishers to block AI data scraping while ensuring that legitimate search engine crawlers, such as Googlebot and Applebot, can still access the site for indexing. This development addresses growing concerns among content creators about the unauthorized use of their data by AI models. AI

IMPACT This feature provides website owners with greater control over their data, potentially impacting the training datasets available for AI models.

RANK_REASON Product launch by a major infrastructure provider that impacts AI data usage policies.

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Cloudflare feature blocks AI training bots while allowing search engines

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Cloudflare has launched a feature that lets websites block AI bots from training on their content without affecting search engine crawling. Publishers can now d

    Cloudflare has launched a feature that lets websites block AI bots from training on their content without affecting search engine crawling. Publishers can now disallow AI training while keeping Googlebot and Applebot for indexing. The move comes as more sites look to control how …

    LINKS searchenginejournal.com/…/589559 searchenginejournal.com/…/381435

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