Patreon stops asking AI scrapers politely
Patreon just teamed up with Cloudflare to actively block AI training bots from scraping creator content, ditching passive robots.txt requests that models routinely ignored. In early testing, Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control dropped weekly scraper hits from thousands to zero. Why it matters: as scraping gets more aggressive, platforms are realizing polite requests won't protect human work.