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How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file (www.cyberciti.biz)

submitted 3 months ago by CynicusRex@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] 5opn0o30@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow. A lot of cynicism here. The AI bots are (currently) honoring robots.txt so this is an easy way to say go away. Honeypot urls can be a second line of defense as well as blocking published IP ranges. They’re no different than other bots that have existed for years.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In my experience, the AI bots are absolutely not honoring robots.txt - and there are literally hundreds of unique ones. Everyone and their dog has unleashed AI/LLM harvesters over the past year without much thought to the impact to low bandwidth sites.

Many of them aren't even identifying themselves as AI bots, but faking human user-agents.