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Should You Block AI Crawlers? A Plain Guide to robots.txt and AI Bots

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Originally published at seopeck.com . Alongside Googlebot and Bingbot, most websites are now visited by crawlers from AI companies. Some collect text to train language models; others fetch pages so an AI assistant can answer a question and cite its source. Site owners are increasingly asking the sa…

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  1. 2026-09-24 21:07 · DEV Community — AI
    Should You Block AI Crawlers? A Plain Guide to robots.txt and AI Bots

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