Web giant Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping content by default

1. Cloudflare will block AI crawlers accessing content without permission by default. 2. This policy gives web domain owners control over their data usage. 3. 16% of global internet traffic utilizes Cloudflare's CDN services. 4. The change may impede AI models' training and data extraction capabilities. 5. OpenAI criticized this as introducing unnecessary middleman complexities.