Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has placed the control with content creators and publishers for content that is scraped by AI bots.

Cloudflare Blocks AI Bots from Scraping Web Content Without Permission The move is a win for media publishers.

Adding to that quiver, Cloudflare is launching the sharp and pointy Pay Per Crawl scheme, which aims to hit AI companies scraping online content where it hurts—namely, their deep pockets.