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.

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

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The era of unrestricted AI crawling appears to be ending - well, at least for the fifth of the internet that flows through Cloudflare's pipes.

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Cloudflare aims to make such deals occur through a network handshake. The firm's payment service, now in private beta testing, is called Pay per crawl.

Cloudflare takes a stand on AI crawlers, which could enable publishers to finally make peace with the bots scooping up their ...

Cloudflare’s new model is an attempt to put the control of online content back into the hands of its original creators and owners. It follows a similar attempt by Creative Commons, which recently ...

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.