news Techcrunch Ai 2026-07-17

Patreon Blocks AI Bots to Prevent Unauthorized Content Scraping

Patreon has implemented measures with Cloudflare to actively block AI bots from scraping creator content for training purposes, moving beyond reliance on robots.txt.

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