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Cloudflare Mandates AI Firms to Distinguish Crawlers or Face Blocking

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Cloudflare Mandates AI Firms to Distinguish Crawlers or Face Blocking
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“Cloudflare requires AI companies to separate crawlers used for AI training from those for search by September 15 or face blocking on publisher sites.”

Cloudflare has introduced a new policy mandating AI firms to clearly identify and differentiate their web crawlers used for search engines from those deployed for AI training and agents by September 15.

If companies fail to comply, Cloudflare will block these AI training crawlers by default across a broad range of publisher websites. The measure aims to protect publishers' content from unauthorized AI usage and ensure proper compensation or control when their data is utilized for AI training.

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