Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon is fighting back against AI scrapers. TechCrunch reports the platform is partnering with Cloudflare to actively block bots that train AI models on creators' content without permission—moving beyond the passive robots.txt file to direct enforcement.

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