Drew Rowny

Patreon has partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping content on its platform, CEO Jack Conte announced on Instagram. The network-level protection applies to all posts publ…

Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to deploy Crawl Control technology that blocks known AI training crawlers while allowing legitimate search bots, a move CEO Jack Conte framed as about creator consent…

Patreon announced Thursday it is working with Cloudflare to actively block AI training bots from scraping creators' content, moving beyond its previous robots.txt requests after finding that AI crawle…