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AI Crawlers

Automated bots used by AI companies to access and index web content for training and responses.

Definition

AI Crawlers are automated bots deployed by AI companies (like OpenAI's GPTBot, Anthropic's Claude-Web, Google's Google-Extended) to access, index, and potentially use web content for AI model training or real-time responses.

Why It's Important

Understanding AI crawlers helps you control how your content is accessed and used by AI systems. Different crawlers have different purposes and respect different access controls.

How It Works

AI crawlers visit websites, read content, and send it back to AI companies for processing. Some crawlers are for training data collection, while others retrieve real-time information for AI responses.

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