AI Bots and Robots.txt

There’s been a lot of discussion lately around AI crawlers and bots, which are used to train LLMs and/or fetch content on behalf of their users. In the past few weeks I’ve seen blog posts about the amount of traffic from these crawlers, techniques and products to control how and what they can crawl, reports of misbehaving crawlers and more. Ironically, there’s even AI based services to mitigate AI…