Mastodawn

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

https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click

Not a huge fan of Cloudflare but them offering this service is both an indication of the scale of the abuse (this level of traffic costs money) and the changing attitudes towards "AI"

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.

The Cloudflare Blog

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

The creators of TikTok caused my website to shut down