The western AI crawlers are generally very-well behaved. GPTBot and ClaudeBot are nice crawlers and I see them respecting my robots.txt.
There are of course plenty of mystery, obfuscated/camouflaged scrapers/crawlers from god knows whom. Thankfully they are easy to spot and ban, although I've definitely thought about deliberating sending them poisoned data.
The western AI crawlers are generally very-well behaved. GPTBot and ClaudeBot are nice crawlers and I see them respecting my robots.txt.
There are of course plenty of mystery, obfuscated/camouflaged scrapers/crawlers from god knows whom. Thankfully they are easy to spot and ban, although I've definitely thought about deliberating sending them poisoned data.