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    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.

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    Kickstarter boots AI porn group after raising $60K

    Kickstarter and Patreon just banned Unstable Diffusion, an online community dedicated to generating NSFW AI images, after it raised nearly $60,000. Social media erupted in protest over the project relying on copyrighted artist styles. Kickstarter's CEO made their stance clear, saying the platform will always side with human creative work.