AI Crawlers Overwhelming Website Infrastructure Without Consent Controls
Every AI company's training and retrieval crawlers hammer websites continuously, straining servers and consuming bandwidth beyond what traditional search bots required. Webmasters lack standardized tools to selectively allow/block specific AI crawlers via sitemaps or robots.txt extensions. Existing solutions were designed for search engines and do not handle the scale or diversity of AI crawlers.
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