Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Short summary

Cloudflare is requiring AI companies to separate search crawlers from AI training crawlers by September 15 or face default blocking on publisher sites. This policy balances AI development with publisher copyright protections. Founders and ops teams need to audit and update crawler classification infrastructure to remain compliant.

• •Cloudflare deadline: September 15 to separate search vs. AI training crawlers
• •Default blocking on publisher sites for non-compliant AI crawlers
• •Requires infrastructure audit and reclassification by AI companies

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