Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape

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  "detected_at": "2026-07-17T15:21:17+00:00",
  "company": {
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    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/patreon-stops-asking-ai-bots-not-to-scrape-and-starts-blocking-them/",
    "title": "Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape - and starts blocking them",
    "author": "Sarah Perez",
    "excerpt": "Patreon , the membership platform for creators, is cracking down on AI scraping its content for training purposes. On Thursday, the company shared that it’s working with internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare to directly block access to AI bots designed to train their AI models on creators’ work without permission. The strengthened measures were necessary because AI scraping has become more sophisticated since it first put measures in place to deter AI crawlers in 2023, the company says. In addition, Patreon’s paywall has long locked much of creators’ content out of reach of crawlers. But more recently, the company introduced new discovery tools like a redesigned Home Feed and its tweet-like Quips , which could expose more content to crawlers. The changes come about as more online publishers and content creators are coming to grips with how AI is ingesting their work for the purpose of making their AI models smarter. To combat this, Cloudflare now offers tools that allow website publishers to restrict AI bots , including a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping , dubbed Pay Per Crawl. Earlier this month, it changed its policies so that “mixed-use” crawlers, meaning those that both index and train on a website’s content, are blocked by default on any pages that host ads. Patreon says that it’s extending its existing work with Cloudflare to use the...",
    "product": "AI Crawl Control",
    "summary": "Patreon is using Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control technology to update its AI policies and enforcement tools, actively blocking AI training bots.",
    "planning": false,
    "image_url": "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/patreon-logo-v1.jpg?resize=1200,675",
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    "article_sentence": "Patreon says that it’s extending its existing work with Cloudflare to use the company’s AI Crawl Control technology to update its AI policies and enforcement tools.",
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curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/54855656-842c-bd0b-2108-97b305b7b84a \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"

curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"patreon.com","limit":20}'