Recently I came across a discussion about AI crawlers and robots.txt files. The conversation centered...
Recently I came across a discussion about AI crawlers and robots.txt files. The conversation centered on a simple question:
Should website owners allow AI systems to access their content?
One proposed configuration looked something like this:
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
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