easy button to block all AI bots

[johannes]

Cloudflare launched a "easy button" to block all AI bots, effectively preventing Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others from stealing web content for free.
It would be great to have something like this in DA.

more Info about the button:

Cloudflare goes to war with Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI's bots, with blanket free tools to block all crawlers

Declare AIdependence, says Cloudflare, as it provides tools to prevent generative AI systems from stealing info.

www.windowscentral.com

Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click

To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier.

blog.cloudflare.com

I think this is a good idea and have opened a feature request here https://feedback.directadmin.com/b/feature-requests/make-a-easy-button-to-block-all-ai-bots
Please vote for it if you think the same.

 

[Richard G]

Last week, Microsoft's AI chief said that all publicly-facing internet content was "freeware" to be stolen for its AI aspirations.

Ye he is crazy. Lots of images and certain content are most certainly not freeware. A lot of that is copyrighted and there is also intellectual property rights. Microsoft could risk a great fine in the EU at least when they start using content for themselves without permission of the (copyright) owner.

So yes, upvoted to block AI bots easily.

 

[Ohm J]

I don't think it easy to do same with cloudflare. it need to built up the database for identify which IPs come from the openAI or BOT and blocked directly from IPs.

 

[paisley]

Think best to make cloudflare integration?

 

[LawsHosting]

Microsoft are bozo's...... Another way to spy on us....... Like Windows 11 wasn't enough, they add Recall to the mix.....