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Patreon AI Scraping Crackdown Blocks Training Bots

Patreon AI scraping protections now actively block training bots while allowing search crawlers to help users discover creators.

Patreon AI Scraping Crackdown Blocks Training Bots

Patreon is taking a harder line against AI companies that scrape creator content for training. The membership platform says it is working with Cloudflare to actively block AI training crawlers rather than simply asking them to respect its robots.txt instructions. The change matters because Patreon says AI scraping has become more sophisticated since it introduced measures to discourage automated access in 2023. Its latest approach is designed to stop training-focused bots at the infrastructure level while continuing to allow crawlers that help people discover Patreon pages and return to the platform. The move reflects a broader problem facing online creators: publishing work on the internet can increase visibility, but it can also make that work available to AI systems that may use it without the creator's permission. Patreon AI scraping protections move beyond robots.txt For years, robots.txt has been one of the main tools websites use to communicate with automated crawlers. A site c…

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