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AI Crawlers Are Hitting Your Site Right Now. Should You Block Them?

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Go check your server logs. I'll wait. See those user agents you don't recognize? GPTBot , ClaudeBot , CCBot , PerplexityBot , Bytespider , Amazonbot — that's not Googlebot doing its usual rounds. That's a second, newer wave of crawlers: bots collecting your content to train AI models and feed retri…

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  1. 2026-09-30 09:09 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Crawlers Are Hitting Your Site Right Now. Should You Block Them?

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