Cloudflare goes to war with Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI's bots, with blanket free tools to block all crawlers

[Windows Central]

Hot on the heels of Microsoft saying all public internet content is "freeware" to be stolen to train AI models, Cloudflare has offered a huge chunk of the internet the ability to block all AI crawlers for free.

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[Opinion]

Honestly they had this coming. Glad to see Cloudflare's plan here. I think it's a great idea, it is good for their existing customers, and it will probably attract more customers for them. Well done. I think it's very important for ideas such this one to become products as quickly as possible: I don't think governments will be able to align and react quickly enough to what is happening with AI and, for how things are being conducted now, the potential to harm way too many workers and businesses needs to be proactively limited.

 

[wojtek]

Good that Cloud flare is doing that but honestly - big corp acting like a presumptuous douchebag is both scary and annoying...