“Patreon has partnered with an internet infrastructure company called Cloudflare to block Al training crawlers from using the work you publish on your Patreon to train their Al models,” Conte wrote.

Oh, awesome, partnering with a corporation that just announced partnering with an AI corporation, not to mention the fact that its already a monopolistic corporation (one sixth of the entire frickin web is now in the hands of Cloudflare) whose CEO is already the richest person in the entire USian state of Utah and is being handed the godly power to dictate who can and who can't consume the web ("are you using a privacy focused Firefox fork or using an adblocker? Oh, you shall not pass, access denied with no recourse").

Very "anti-AI" move from Patreon. Might as well feed the content directly to the AI's maw... What's next, scanning people's eyes in order to imitate Google reCAPTCHA's recent move of requiring doing hand gestures through selfies!? As for anti-AI people among the comments cheering this clear anti-ai-washing PR move from a corporation, really? My goddess, this world is truly messed up.

!technology@lemmy.world