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.
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.
Good idea. I will made a invisible link to “traps for bots”. One trap will show random text, one will be redirect loop and one would be random link generator that will link to itself. I will also make every response randomly slow, for example 0,5 to 1,5 seconds.
Good thing is that I can also block search engine crawlers from accessing only the traps.
If you’re interested in traps, you can add a honeypot to your robots.txt. It comes with some risk of blocking legitimate users, though.
Would invisible Unicode characters also work?
https://invisible-characters.com/
Nice idea, but a lot of random text that user doean’t see would slow down the website.
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
OP still wants search indexing, in which case it’s a big no-no - it can be perceived as spam by search engines, and links your pages to tons of unrelated keywords.
I can block search engine crawlers from specific paths so that should be solved.
As long as you do not rely on SEO to get traffic. This has a good chance of affecting how Google sees your site as well.