block AI crawlers

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If you've noticed strange bot traffic or your content getting scraped, blocking AI crawlers is a practical step for site owners. I had to do this when my blog posts started appearing in weird AI summaries without credit. It's basically about updating your robots.txt file to disallow known AI user agents, but watch out—some crawlers don't respect these rules, so you might need additional server-side blocks or rate limiting to actually keep them out.