If you run a blog and don't want to allow LLM crawlers to train on your content, do you have options?
Ask HN: Is there a robots.txt equivalent for LLMs? like LICENSEME.txt?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a robots.txt equivalent for LLMs? like LICENSEME.txt?
#2I guess if you selectively allow crawlers that promise to not use the data in such a way, robots.txt is still the way to go.
Otherwise you need to selectively allow certain bots. However, as well as with web crawlers, respecting a robots.txt is optional.
Insidious with AI-models is that it is difficult or practicably impossible to prove that it trained on your data.
Difficult to establish a standard like robots.txt. There also was .well-known/security.txt that Google proposed. Some sites serve it, but it hasn't really become a standard.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a robots.txt equivalent for LLMs? like LICENSEME.txt?
#3Ironically my blog is written with the help of an LLM, so AI scraper bots are trained on their own output.
But if you are concerned there's a good resource here for blocking them: https://darkvisitors.com/