Cloudflare today released the most demanded feature to block freeloading AI companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, Perplexity and others from accessing independent content creators' images, text, blogs, and anything else hosted by them without your permission. Cloudflare deploys a custom rule to detect and block AI bots from your website https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/
@nixCraft I remember getting fussed at when I said that data collection companies would ignore instructions to not scrape when an official entry came out. Now it seems to have gotten so bad people need an actual blocking service.