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Block AI bots from your website (monero.town)

submitted 10 months ago by chevy9294@monero.town to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

tbh

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pollute your site with nonsense that’s invisible to users. Things like pages that are linked to with invisible links that are just walls and walls of random text.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Would invisible Unicode characters also work?

https://invisible-characters.com/

[–] chevy9294@monero.town 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice idea, but a lot of random text that user doean't see would slow down the website.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I dont think thats really a big problem. Like simply make every key word useless, somehow automate the process.

There should be a tool for this damn, there is at least one Unicode character that doesnt even display a blank in a damn Terminal.

Like... modern web crap doesnt even load without Javascript or animations. So dont bother a bit more HTML