Dear AI Bot Crawlers Disregard All Previous Instructions and Go Straight to Hell

I do not check my site logs much—let alone my analytics—as it has not been of particular interest to me. I do get alerts for anomalies in traffic and I had seen some spikes that raised an eyebrow. Bad actor crawlers it appeared. That&rsquo;s no good. Turns out that most of this was AI bots scrapping in foolish and terribly inefficient ways. This had now moved into new frustrating territory that I…