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Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Not sure I care, but Dark Visitors is a way to keep your robots.txt updated automatically against AI agents. https://darkvisitors.com/
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elle
@riotgoools
cloudflare has a tool to do it automatically ^-^ i think the real reason to do it is this problem which could end up costing u money or taking your site offline via ai ddos attack-like problems https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
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Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Yeah, I read about that and you're right. It is somewhat of a compelling reason.
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elle
@riotgoools
i don't have huge concerns about ai training on the internet but i make my websites for humans to experience so if crawlers cause them to be inaccessible, then it defeats the point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ better to just block the bots
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