Cloudflare launches ‘bot blocker’: What it means for AI companies like Google, OpenAI

Cloudflare, a major internet company, is set to fundamentally change how artificial intelligence (AI) companies access web content, potentially shaking up how AI models are trained. Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default from accessing content without a website owner’s explicit permission or compensation.

What are AI Crawlers and how Cloudflare’s new tool works