The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

Major websites are fighting back against aggressive AI data scraping with new tools that let content owners block access or charge for their data. The "RSL standard," backed by Reddit, Medium, and Quora, allows publishers to set scraping permissions and pricing terms. This shift, combined with infrastructure companies like Cloudflare blocking unauthorized AI crawlers, could force AI companies to start paying for the web content they've been freely harvesting to train their models.