{
  "id": 11395,
  "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",
  "summary": "Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.",
  "authors": "Sarah Perez",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-17T15:21:17.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-18T05:10:55.931Z",
  "source_slug": "techcrunch-ai",
  "source_name": "TechCrunch",
  "source_homepage": "https://techcrunch.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11395",
  "original_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/patreon-stops-asking-ai-bots-not-to-scrape-and-starts-blocking-them",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}