What We Learned This Week: Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
On Wednesday, we noted that Patreon is partnering with content delivery network Cloudflare to block crawlers from stealing creators' work to train AI models. Cloudflare, which provides cybersecurity protection and content delivery services to websites, announced earlier that it would by default start blocking AI crawlers from accessing content without website owners' permission or compensation. On Monday, we noted that many publishers are thinking about foregoing traffic from Google Search because of Google's use of multiuse crawlers scraping websites to train AI.
The Poetry of the Swerve at the Armory
French artist and composer Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has expanded his monumental sound installation, Clinamen, to its largest iteration to date, now on view at the Park Avenue Armory. For those who track his work—perhaps remembering his smaller, bird-and-guitar installations or an earlier iteration of this piece at SFMOMA, in 2017—the sheer scale here is breathtaking. Spanning 55,000 square feet, the vast, shadowy drill hall has been punctuated by t...

