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Cloudflare launches 'Disallow AI Training' setting for site owners to opt out of model training
Cloudflare released a new DNS/WAF setting that blocks AI crawlers from scraping a site's content for model training while preserving search engine indexing—providing legal and technical middle ground for content owners.
WHY IT MATTERS
Banks and fintech platforms hosting public APIs will use this to protect proprietary data from unauthorized LLM training. Expect rapid adoption by wealth management, lending, and fraud-detection platforms to lock down training data lineage.
Source: PYMNTS · 2026-09-16