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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In my experience, the AI bots are absolutely not honoring robots.txt - and there are literally hundreds of unique ones. Everyone and their dog has unleashed AI/LLM harvesters over the past year without much thought to the impact to low bandwidth sites.

Many of them aren't even identifying themselves as AI bots, but faking human user-agents.