Prevent AI from learning from your data
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2025 6:28 am
The first thing you can do is prevent your content from appearing in some AI datasets. This is the crudest option that won't be practical for most marketers or web publishers.
Keep in mind that opting out of indexing by senegal mobile database any AI also means that your site and any related information will not appear in that AI's output. If a user searches for information about your business based on a prompt from a generative AI chatbot, they may not see you in the results.
By protecting your privacy in this way, you are essentially sacrificing generative AI as a marketing channel, so make sure you are prepared for the potential consequences of this move.
You can opt out of OpenAI's GPTBot crawling by adding these lines to your robots.txt file:
Unfortunately, Google-Extended does not block your site from being indexed in Google's AI-powered Search Generating Environment (SGE). It seems that the only way to avoid appearing in SGE is to opt out of Google indexing entirely.
You can read more about Google's crawling and modifying permissions in their own documentation.
Regain your marketing advantage by moving to more difficult-to-replicate marketing approaches.
For most of us, blocking AI crawlers or opting out of SEO entirely isn’t exactly the answer. So what can we do instead?
Accept that someone might try to plagiarize your content using AI. Even if you could opt out of each training dataset, someone could copy your work into ChatGPT and steal it that way.
If someone wants to steal, they'll find a way. Trying to prevent your content from being copied quickly becomes an endless game of catch-and-release, or it could lead to you stopping publishing on the open web altogether.
Keep in mind that opting out of indexing by senegal mobile database any AI also means that your site and any related information will not appear in that AI's output. If a user searches for information about your business based on a prompt from a generative AI chatbot, they may not see you in the results.
By protecting your privacy in this way, you are essentially sacrificing generative AI as a marketing channel, so make sure you are prepared for the potential consequences of this move.
You can opt out of OpenAI's GPTBot crawling by adding these lines to your robots.txt file:
Unfortunately, Google-Extended does not block your site from being indexed in Google's AI-powered Search Generating Environment (SGE). It seems that the only way to avoid appearing in SGE is to opt out of Google indexing entirely.
You can read more about Google's crawling and modifying permissions in their own documentation.
Regain your marketing advantage by moving to more difficult-to-replicate marketing approaches.
For most of us, blocking AI crawlers or opting out of SEO entirely isn’t exactly the answer. So what can we do instead?
Accept that someone might try to plagiarize your content using AI. Even if you could opt out of each training dataset, someone could copy your work into ChatGPT and steal it that way.
If someone wants to steal, they'll find a way. Trying to prevent your content from being copied quickly becomes an endless game of catch-and-release, or it could lead to you stopping publishing on the open web altogether.