# Patreon Partners with Cloudflare to Block AI Training Crawlers

> Patreon has teamed up with Cloudflare to give creators a straightforward way to keep AI companies from scraping their work. Using Cloudflare's bot management, the platform can now identify and block the crawlers that automated systems use to vacuum up text, images, and video for training data, without creators needing to hand configure their own defenses. The move lands in the middle of a widening standoff between the people who make things online and the labs that feed on their output. Many creators have watched their catalogs get ingested into models with no consent, credit, or payment, and the tools to opt out have been scattered and technical. Baking the protection into a platform that already handles memberships and payouts lowers the bar considerably. It is a small but telling signal of where the content economy is heading. As more platforms treat crawler-blocking as a default feature rather than an expert setting, the era of freely harvesting the open web for training may be quietly closing, one publisher at a time.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: 404 Media · Published Saturday, July 11, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Patreon has teamed up with Cloudflare to give creators a straightforward way to keep AI companies from scraping their work. Using Cloudflare's bot management, the platform can now identify and block the crawlers that automated systems use to vacuum up text, images, and video for training data, without creators needing to hand configure their own defenses. The move lands in the middle of a widening standoff between the people who make things online and the labs that feed on their output. Many creators have watched their catalogs get ingested into models with no consent, credit, or payment, and the tools to opt out have been scattered and technical. Baking the protection into a platform that already handles memberships and payouts lowers the bar considerably. It is a small but telling signal of where the content economy is heading. As more platforms treat crawler-blocking as a default feature rather than an expert setting, the era of freely harvesting the open web for training may be quietly closing, one publisher at a time.

## Source

[Read the full story at 404 Media](https://www.404media.co/patreon-cloudflare-partnership-ai-crawlers/)

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