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Cloudflare to AI Crawlers: Pay or be blocked (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Could this conflict with the fair use of AI training rules?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

No, the fact it's technically legal doesn't mean you have to make it easy for them.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Yup. "Legal" just means the government won't punish you.

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