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Block AI bots from your website (monero.town)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I'm building a personal website and I don't want it to be used to train AI. In my robots.txt file I blocked:

ChatGPT-User
GPTBot
Google-Extended
FacebookBot

What bots should I also add? Are there any other ways to block AI bots?

IMPORTANT: I don't want to block search engine crawlers, only bots that are used to train AI.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I’m curious about how to verify that these bots respect the rules. I don’t doubt that they do, since it might be a PR nightmare for these big tech companies if they don’t, but I don’t know how to verify them. Asking because I’m also doing this for my website.

By the way, LLMs are usually also trained by common crawl, (not sure to what extent), but I’m not sure whether you want to block common crawl.

Another thing to consider is whether your website is indexed and crawled by web archive, and whether web archive has some policy on AI bot crawlers and scrapers.