AI protection for artists

manywalls blocks AI bots by default —
so artists don't have to.

Your work stays off AI training sets from the moment you publish. No toggles, no opt-out forms.

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The problem

Artists are pulling their work offline
because of AI scraping.

Sixty percent of professional visual artists have reduced what they share online. Half now only upload low-resolution versions. The reason: AI companies scrape published artwork to train image generators — without asking, without paying, and without credit.

A 2025 study by researchers at UC San Diego surveyed over 200 visual artists. 96% want tools that block AI crawlers. Yet more than 60% had never heard of the most basic bot-blocking mechanism available.

On most platforms, artists are expected to figure this out alone. Find the right setting, apply it to every image, hope the bots listen.

How it happens

From your portfolio
to an AI training set.

Artist publishes

You upload your work to a portfolio site or gallery platform.

Bot downloads

AI crawlers visit your page and download everything — full-resolution images, thumbnails, gallery pages.

Image trains AI

Your images feed into training datasets used to build AI image generators.

AI competes

Clients use AI models instead of hiring the artist whose work trained them.

A Stanford study found that after AI images entered an online marketplace, 23% more non-AI artists left. UNESCO projects visual artists could lose up to 24% of revenue by 2028. Over 11,500 artists, authors, and musicians signed a public statement opposing the use of copyrighted work to train AI without permission.

How manywalls protects your work

Blocked at the network level,
before bots reach your page.

Platform-level blocking

manywalls partners with Cloudflare to block AI crawlers at the network infrastructure level — before a bot ever reaches your page.

Every page protected

Your artist page and artwork files are protected from the moment they go live. No setting to find, no tag to apply.

No artist action needed

There's no toggle, no per-image tagging, no opt-out form. Protection is a platform-wide policy, not a per-artist feature.

Regular search engines and human visitors reach your work with no friction

Only AI training crawlers are identified and turned away

Protection applies automatically to every new artwork you publish

The landscape

A platform policy,
not a per-artist toggle.

ArtStation

Opt-in NoAI tag

Artists must apply a NoAI tag image by image. If you don't know it exists, your work is open to crawlers.

DeviantArt

Default opt-out

Reversed course and set opt-out to apply by default — but only after sustained backlash from the community.

Cara

NoAI tags + Glaze

Uses NoAI HTML tags and optional Glaze integration. Positive steps, but relies on bots voluntarily honoring a request.

manywalls

Built-in infrastructure blocking

Blocking happens at the network level. Every artist page, every artwork file, as a platform-wide policy. No toggle, no form.

What we block — and what we don't

Honest about
the limits.

manywalls blocks recognized AI crawlers — bots that identify themselves when they visit a page. This includes crawlers from OpenAI, Google, Common Crawl, and others.

GPTBot (OpenAI), Google-Extended, CCBot, and other recognized AI crawlers

Blocked at the network level before they access your content

Your images are never served to identified AI training bots

What we don't claim

A person could screenshot your work — no platform can prevent that

A bad actor could disguise their bot as a regular visitor

Images already in a training dataset can't be removed by blocking future crawls

Technical protection doesn't replace copyright enforcement — they do different jobs

Why the default matters

The opt-out model asks
too much of artists.

Know which AI crawlers exist — there are dozens, and new ones appear regularly

Understand how your platform handles bot access

Find the right settings or tags

Apply them to every page and every image

Check back when new crawlers appear and do it again

When the platform handles this by default, artists can focus on what they came to do: publish and show their work.

Your work, your data

Full ownership.
No license. Delete means delete.

You keep full ownership — manywalls holds no license over your images

Your art is never repurposed — not for AI training, not for marketing, not for anything

Delete your account and all your artwork goes with it — no retention period, no buried clauses

Too many platforms treat uploaded artwork as material they can relicense, repurpose, or feed into new features. manywalls doesn't.

Publish without
handing your work to AI.

Download manywalls free on iPhone and Android. AI crawlers blocked from day one.