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Should AI crawlers access your site?

This story is from 2026-10-16. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

Many sites added Disallow: / for GPTBot in 2023 and never looked at it again. Some went further and blocked every AI user agent they could find. That is a legitimate choice. But it is often made without knowing that the crawlers do different jobs. Block the training bot and you keep your content ou…

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  1. 2026-10-16 07:07 · DEV Community — AI
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