Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
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Patreon announced a partnership with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from accessing creator content at the network level. The blocking applies to all posts published on Patreon while allowing search crawlers that help creators reach audiences. Creators now have the ability to prevent their work from being used to train AI models without their consent, addressing what Patreon's CEO described as a fundamental issue of creator compensation and control.
Why it matters
“Creators deserve credit, compensation, and consent. If that's not on the table, the crawlers can stay the fuck off Patreon," CEO Jack Conte wrote on Thursday.
