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Cloudflare is implementing new measures to prevent AI companies from scraping online content without explicit permission, marking a notable shift in the ongoing debate about AI data acquisition practices. The move aims to address concerns that AI developers are unfairly exploiting publicly available data to train their models. The discussion originated on the r/artificial subreddit, highlighting growing awareness and scrutiny of these practices within the AI community. [Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1mynhew/ai_crawlers_getting_called_out_by_cloudfare_is/]