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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If they could stop blocking real users at the same time they block AI crawlers, that would be nice.
Could this conflict with the fair use of AI training rules?
No, the fact it’s technically legal doesn’t mean you have to make it easy for them.
Kind of reminds me of that time CF bait and switched that gambling website. Everyone was wondering who they find more predatory and distasteful.
iirc it came out that the gambling site was intentionally cycling through cloudflare’s IP range to avoid IP blocking, causing legitimate websites to be flagged as unsafe. They said they’d still host them, they just need their own IP and not one of cloudflare’s. Horribly communicated to the customer though
