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# Training bots not welcome
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/training-bots-not-welcome/
- Published: 2024-07-03T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-03T19:00:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

Cloudflare: [Declare Your AIndependence: Block AI Bots, Scrapers and Crawlers With a Single Click](https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click?ref=birchtree.me)

> We hear clearly that customers don’t want AI bots visiting their websites, and especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we’ve added a brand new one-click to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on the free tier. To enable it, simply navigate to the Security > Bots section of the Cloudflare dashboard, and click the toggle labeled AI Scrapers and Crawlers.

This is a cool idea and I’ve enabled it on my account. Check the data in the article, but 85% of Cloudflare users indicated they would prefer to block AI crawlers. which is a pretty dominant supermajority.

As I’ve written about, I’m not fundamentally against my writing being used to train LLMs, but I am increasingly annoyed with the attitudes of these companies, so I decided to take this symbolic step of making their lives marginally harder. Kudos to Cloudflare for productizing this.