Patreon announced on Thursday that it’s partnering with Cloudflare to block crawlers from stealing creators’ work to train AI models.
“I HAVE A KICKASS PRODUCT UPDATE FOR YOU ALL!” Jack Conte, the founder and CEO of Patreon, wrote in a post on Instagram with the superimposed text, “POV: you’re CEO of one of these fucking tech companies, so you do what you want.”
“Patreon has partnered with an internet infrastructure company called Cloudflare to block Al training crawlers from using the work you publish on your Patreon to train their Al models,” Conte wrote. “This is live and happening at the network level on all posts published on Patreon.”
But they have absolutely no way to prevent any big AI harvester from harvesting this content, so whatever they claim has no impact whatsoever on what data gets harvested.
Am I missing anything?
No your not, its like the old web crawlers (spiders). Just because you put in your code no crawlers/spiders/bots does it mean they will comply.
I do miss spiders, way better search engine than the garbage we have now…