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Patreon is taking a tougher stance against AI companies that scrape creator content for training. The membership platform is now working with Cloudflare to actively block AI training bots, rather than just asking them to stop via robots.txt files. The move comes as AI scraping has become more sophisticated and widespread.
Strava is restricting API access to combat AI scraping and zero-code tools. Developers now pay a flat $11.99 per month subscription to build apps using Strava's data. The fitness platform cites a 448% year-to-date increase in developer applications and degraded performance from scraping attempts.