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Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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How will they protect that content being trained for AI models on third party piracy sites where dumps of Patreon subscriber content get published without a paywall. On those sites, there's no protection.
Like that's the unfortunate part about a lot of this is a lot of people pay for Patreon access and then just pirate the content out. I'm not against piracy, but I do see the nature of the piracy sites being wide open with no controls or protections from AI scraping that even with Patreon doing this, many are likely to still have their art scraped.