Sample Terms

Cloudflare recommends that customers consider updating their Terms of Service to address bots specifically related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) training and data scraping. The text below provides an informational example of the kind of language that could be added to a website’s terms of use.

Artificial Intelligence Restriction

You may not use automated bots to access, scan, scrape, data mine, copy, or use the materials or content on this website for developing, training, fine-tuning, or otherwise contributing to or improving a machine learning model or artificial intelligence (AI) system or the operation thereof, unless your bot’s user agent is (i) explicitly permitted (“allowed”) to do so in this website’s robots.txt file and (ii) solely used to identify bots used for AI purposes (i.e., this provision does not apply to user agents that are used for multiple purposes, such as search engine indexing and AI purposes).

Disclaimer This language is provided for informational purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice, nor does it guarantee any specific outcome. This is merely an illustrative example of language that can be included in a website’s terms to put AI-providers on notice that they are not authorized to use automated means to scrape content from your website for purposes of training or otherwise contributing to their AI models or systems, unless you have expressly permitted them to do so in your robots.txt file.