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The Cloudflare Blog: Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content

Jul 1, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content Feedly Summary: Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf. AI…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4

May 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Feedly Summary: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic’s CDN because they don’t appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic’s system cards are always worth…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude feature drop

May 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/claude-search/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude feature drop Feedly Summary: It’s not in their release notes yet but Anthropic pushed some big new features today. Alex Albert: We’ve improved web search and rolled it out worldwide to all paid plans. Web search now combines light Research functionality, allowing Claude to automatically adjust…

The Register: Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

Apr 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/ietf_ai_preferences_working_group/ Source: The Register Title: Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it Feedly Summary: Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to deliver proposals The Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a group it hopes will create a standard that lets content creators…

Slashdot: Open Source Devs Say AI Crawlers Dominate Traffic, Forcing Blocks On Entire Countries

Mar 26, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/26/016244/open-source-devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Devs Say AI Crawlers Dominate Traffic, Forcing Blocks On Entire Countries Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges faced by software developers, particularly open source maintainers, in managing aggressive AI crawler traffic that overwhelms their repositories. This scenario underscores the urgent…

Hacker News: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Mar 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/ Source: Hacker News Title: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges faced by software developers in managing aggressive AI crawler traffic that negatively affects open-source projects, leading to significant service instability and increased operational…

Hacker News: IETF setting standards for AI preferences

Mar 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.ietf.org/blog/aipref-wg/ Source: Hacker News Title: IETF setting standards for AI preferences Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the formation of the AI Preferences (AIPREF) Working Group, aimed at standardizing how content preferences are expressed for AI model training, amid concerns from content publishers about unauthorized use. This…

The Register: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

Mar 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/cloudflare_ai_labyrinth/ Source: The Register Title: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Feedly Summary: Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.… AI…

Hacker News: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

Mar 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ Source: Hacker News Title: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses recent disruptions faced by open-source projects due to aggressive AI crawlers that disregard robots.txt protocols, leading to significant operations challenges and increased workloads for system administrators. It highlights…

Hacker News: AI crawlers haven’t learned to play nice with websites

Mar 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/ai_crawlers_sourcehut/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI crawlers haven’t learned to play nice with websites Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: SourceHut reports that excessive crawling by AI companies’ web crawlers is disrupting its services. These crawlers, primarily for training large language models (LLMs), have compelled SourceHut to implement several mitigations,…

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