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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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[-] Bell@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

A nice explanation of what's wrong with web-based AI. I hope other content providers follow suit.

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