Neatnik Notes · Gotta block ’em all

While we’re playing whack-a-mole, let’s poison these rodents.

Blocking bots – Manu

Blocking the bots is step one.

Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent • Robb Knight

See, this is exactly why we need to poison these bots.

Documentation for GPTBot - OpenAI API

Now that the horse has bolted—and ransacked the web—you can shut the barn door:

To disallow GPTBot to access your site you can add the GPTBot to your site’s robots.txt:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /