What you need to know
- Cloudflare is a global cloud provider that provides security and DDoS protection to millions of websites, protecting roughly 20% of all global internet traffic.
- Yesterday, Cloudflare announced a new free tool that it will begin offering to all customers, specifically designed to blot out AI crawlers.
- AI bots used by the likes of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and many others, steal copyrighted information from websites like ours in order to train its premium AI services.
- Last week, Microsoft's AI chief said that all publicly-facing internet content was "freeware" to be stolen for its AI aspirations.
