Hi, I’m building a personal website and I don’t want it to be used to train AI. In my robots.txt file I blocked:
- ChatGPT-User
- GPTBot
- Google-Extended
- FacebookBot
What bots should I also add? Are there any other ways to block AI bots?
IMPORTANT: I don’t want to block search engine crawlers, only bots that are used to train AI.
FYI, bots and crawlers can simply ignore your robots.txt entirely. This is probably common knowledge around these parts, but I’ve run into clients at work who thought it was a law or something.
I do like the idea of intentionally polluting the data robots will see, as suggested by this comment. There’s no reliable way to block them without also blocking humans, so making the crawled data as useless as possible is a good option.
Just be careful not to also confuse screen readers with that tactic, so that accessibility is maintained for humans. It should be easy enough if you keep your
ariaattributes filled out appropriately, I imagine.Good luck.
Block everyone but the crawlers you like. Blacklists are less reliable than whitelists
I have a personal site.
It isn’t great. Don’t even have a domain name. My robots.txt is here
https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/robots.txt
Why bother? I just don’t agree with AI.
Specifically what about AI don’t you agree with?
Mostly the hype and because artists and creators are being hurt by its existence.
I feel as though using AI is a cop-out. If I want to do something good, I also want to be proud of it. So I would rather not take that away from myself by doing it with AI. However, progress marches on, and I am neither an expert nor an authority on the subject. Asking someone like myself that question is nearly a trap. If I tell you that Generative AI is a bubble, like cryptocurrency and the Metaverse, that is just my gut feeling.
How about a bubble like the internet? 90% of dotcoms failed in the 90s but the internet is alive and strong today. AI is just a tool, and from my experience an extremely useful one.
I get that argument. Perhaps the fact that I’m a professor influences my thinking. And, since we are in a privacy community, something like ChatGPT and privacy don’t mix.
Meredith Whittaker (Signal) says[1]:
The Venn diagram of privacy concerns and AI concerns is a circle
(I do keep on eye on their progress because it is interesting https://benchmarks.llmonitor.com/)
Agreed that privacy can be a concern. Ideally it will be possible to run LLMs locally in the near future, but we’ll see.
I was about to ask the same question. It’s one thing to think of the potential impacts of AI technology, but to be “against AI” in the most general sense is, to me, a weird concept, especially considering AI is so many things.
Nice, thats what I am looking for!
I don’t remember what all of those are for so you might want to look them up.
I did, most of them are used for AI or business search engines. I copied everything except Yandex.
Maybe there’s some IP address ranges to try block?
It’s difficult because, for example, blocking the addresses OpenAI’s crawlers use may inadvertently block addresses from Azure used by Bing or whatever.
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User-agent: * Disallow: /tbh
Easy. Add a section to your
robots.txtfile.I don’t really understand the reasoning behind doing any of this, they didn’t give a fuck about stealing clearly copyrighted content in the first place, why would they care about you (not OP specifically) begging them not to steal your stuff. (As long as theres no laws about this which afaik there aren’t).
So that leaves two options then. Leave the front door wide open, don’t bother with any locks. Or shut down the web site. I’m for at least closing the door with the right robots.txt
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Please no…
