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ArtStation is taking action against AI art, but there's one question it doesn't want to answer. Published 5 hours ago Some artists think there's an easier solution. When ArtStation, one of the most popular digital art communities online, recently changed hands, many long-time users of the platform had one big hope: that the new owner would finally take action to stem the swell of AI-generated content on the platform. They now have some good news. KitBash has turned on 'NoAI' by default for all uploads, marking them as unavailable for AI training. Meanwhile, work is underway to try to make it harder for bots to scrape the site and to stop 'AI art' from burying human artists' work. But some artists are wondering, isn't there an easier potential solution for this? Last month, Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite and the game development software Unreal Engine, sold ArtStation to KitBash, the company behind the 3D assets platforms KitBash3D and Greyscalegorilla. Latest Videos FromCreative Bloq The best logos of the 1980s Bold, vibrant designs make the best logos of the 1980s iconic, from corporate brands to classic movies. The new owner says it's been listening to users and read the message about AI clear. Artists want measures to protect their work and to stop it from being buried under the deluge of AI slop. Regarding the first issue, as of yesterday, the default setting for all work on the platform is 'no AI'. This means that both new and existing uploads are automatically excluded from AI training. Users can turn the setting off if, for some reason, they want their work to be available for AI training. This opt-in rather than opt-out approach is something many artists had called for. It contrasts with the approaches of many other platforms. Users on some social platforms like Instagram have to navigate settings to find how to prevent their content from being used for AI, if it's even possible in their region. To try to safeguard users' work more effectively, ArtStation says it's working with Cloudflare to try to prevent art from the site being scraped. It's using bot-management and AI crawler tools to proactively identify and block known AI crawlers and automated scraping activity before they can access content at scale. While it stresses that no system can make publicly shared work impossible to scrape, it believes it can make unauthorised access harder and intends to keep strengthening safeguards as technology changes. Meanwhile, search engines will continue to index ArtStation so artists' work can still be discovered online. The platform says it also agrees with complaints about the need to stop AI-generated content from overwhelming discovery. The sheer volume of AI art had been making it harder to find artists and to evaluate portfolios, making ArtStation less useful both for artists and potential recruiters. ArtStation has recognised that the existing #CreatedWithAI label and filtering tools aren't enough to solve the problem. It says it's working on the development of tools to allow better discovery, more control, and better ways to keep generated content from drowning out professional work. "AI-assisted workflows are varied, so one simple rule won't solve discovery. But complexity cannot become an excuse for inaction," it said on the ArtStation blog, adding: "We don't have every answer yet. We want to get this right, and we want the community involved as we work through it". Many artists have welcomed the policy shift towards favouring human art over AI. But some have a question that ArtStation doesn't seem to want to answer. Why not just ban AI art from the platform? "Feels like [trying to] have it both ways," one artist responded to the announcement on X. "Would love to know why you guys are choosing to allow AI content on the platform. Is it for numbers? Subscriptions? Banning AI would solve the Human artist discovery issue and have less logistics on your side. So why?" ArtStation responded to the question, but it didn't answer it: "We hear you, and we agree that the current tools are not enough to keep AI-generated content from burying human work. ArtStation is now part of the KitBash family, and we are working through how to handle complex workflows without hurting artists. Better discovery controls are just the beginning of the changes we want to make to put creators first." What is ArtStation? ArtStation is an online platform and community where digital artists can showcase their work. Many of the digital artists who have contributed to Creative Bloq use it as a channel to share their work or as their main portfolio. It's also one of the best art inspiration sites, allowing new artists to learn, while agencies, film and game developers and other potential recruiters can find artists for their projects. The platform was founded in 2014 by Leonard Teo and Kevin Strike and quickly grew to have millions of users. It was bought by Epic Games in 2021. Along with Sketchfab, it's now part of KitBash. The new owner intends to add integration with KitBash3D and Greyscalegorilla to create an expanded ecosystem. Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.

Cloudflare expands support for AI coding agents via Cursor integration. Cloudflare, Inc., the leading connectivity cloud company, has announced official support for running Cursor Cloud Agents on Cloudflare Sandboxes, providing developers and platform engineering teams with a secure, customer-controlled environment to execute autonomous AI coding workflows. Building on existing integrations with platforms such as Devin Outposts and Claude Managed Agents, this integration addresses growing enterprise demands to maintain strict control over where code, build caches, and sensitive credentials reside without disrupting established developer workflows. Under this model, Cursor continues to oversee inference, planning, and agent orchestration, while tool calls including terminal operations, filesystem modifications, and browser tasks execute isolated within the customer's Cloudflare sandbox infrastructure via outbound HTTPS connections. Highlighting the strategic push toward unified execution infrastructure, Dane Knecht, Chief Technology Officer at Cloudflare, stated: "Developers want powerful AI tools that fit naturally into their workflows, and enterprises need those tools to run in environments they control. Cloudflare Sandboxes gives teams the freedom to use the AI tools they prefer while giving organizations a secure, isolated place to run agent work. Bringing Cursor Cloud Agents to Cloudflare Sandboxes is another step toward making Cloudflare the execution layer for the next generation of agentic applications." Reaffirming the collaborative value for distributed development teams, Toni Adams, Sr Director of Partnerships at SpaceXAI, added: "SpaceXAI's goal is to make agents useful wherever developers work. Self-Hosted Machines let teams keep Cursor workflows across desktop, web, and mobile while routing work to infrastructure they operate. Cloudflare Sandboxes give those teams an enterprise-grade option for running agent workloads in a controlled environment." Ultimately, this solution enables organizations to deploy scalable worker pools dynamically, reinforcing Cloudflare's position as a foundational execution layer for platform-native agentic software.

Cloudflare announced support for running Cursor Cloud Agents on Cloudflare Sandboxes, enabling developers to run AI coding agents in secure, customer-controlled environments. The integration allows developers to assign coding tasks from the Cursor app whilst executing work within their Cloudflare account sandboxes. Cursor continues to handle inference, planning, and orchestration, whilst agent tasks execute on customer-selected workers in sandbox environments. This addresses enterprise requirements for controlling where code, build caches, and secrets reside. The move builds on Cloudflare's existing work with AI agent platforms including Devin Outposts and Claude Managed Agents. Dane Knecht, Cloudflare's chief technology officer, said the integration represents another step towards making Cloudflare the execution layer for agentic applications.