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Cloudflare Offers Single-Click Blocking of AI Bots

One click on an “easy button” will block all AI bots including scrapers and crawlers for customers of cloud security platform and content delivery network Cloudflare. The aim is to defend content creators and their intellectual property from those building genAI LLMs. Top AI bot request volume on Cloudflare sites comes from Bytespider (owned by Bytedance), which honestly could hardly sound more sinister.