Patreon Partners With Cloudflare to Block AI Training Crawlers
404 Media · rss · 2026-07-10
Patreon has announced a partnership with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping creators' content at the network level.
Key points include:
- This restriction is already active at the post level on Patreon to block known training crawlers.
- The platform aims to block training scrapers while still allowing crawlers that help creators get discovered via search.
- Cloudflare has continuously rolled out more granular bot control features this year and plans to block training and agent bots by default for newly onboarded domains.
- A Patreon executive emphasized that creators should have the rights of consent, attribution, and compensation regarding the use of their content for AI training.
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