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I have no idea why the makers of LLM crawlers think it's a good idea to ignore bot rules. The rules are there for a reason and the reasons are often more complex than "well, we just don't want you to do that". They're usually more like "why would you even do that?"

Ultimately you have to trust what the site owners say. The reason why, say, your favourite search engine returns the relevant Wikipedia pages and not bazillion random old page revisions from ages ago is that Wikipedia said "please crawl the most recent versions using canonical page names, and do not follow the links to the technical pages (including history)". Again: Why would anyone index those?

Surprised at the level of negativity here. Having had my sites repeatedly DDOSed offline by Claudebot and others scraping the same damned thing over and over again, thousands of times a second, I welcome any measures to help.

Burning 29 acres of rainforest a day to do nothing

I guess this is what the first iteration of the Blackwall looks like.

I’m imagining a sci-fi spin on this where AI generators are used to keep AI crawlers in a loop, and they accidentally end up creating some unique AI culture or relationship in the process.

"I used the AI to destroy the AI"

This is getting ridiculous. Can someone please ban AI? Or at least regulate it somehow?

And soon, the already AI-flooded net will be filled with so much nonsense that it becomes impossible for anyone to get some real work done. Sigh.

Should have called it "Black ICE".

Considering how many false positives Cloudflare serves I see nothing but misery coming from this.

You have Thirteen hours in which to solve the labyrinth before your baby AI becomes one of us, forever.