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How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file
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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2024
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Nope. Search engines should follow the robots.txt
You misunderstand. Sometimes you want your public website to be indexed by search engines but not scraped for the next LLM model. If you disallow scraping alltogether, then you won't be indexed on the internet. That can be a problem.
I know that. Thats why I dont ban everyone but only those who dont follow the rules inside my robots.txt. All "sane" search engine crawlers should follow those so its no problem