Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.

The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites.

Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

Cloudflare's new default policy blocks AI crawlers, requiring them to ask for access and pay to crawl websites. This shift ...

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Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” by default according to an announcement on Tuesday ...

Cloudflare has launched a tool that blocks bot crawlers from accessing content without permission or compensation to help websites make money from AI firms trying to access and train on their content, ...