Maxim Mironjuk
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December 09, 2025
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and CCBot crawl websites for different purposes, some for training data, some for real time answers, some for both. Blocking these AI crawlers indiscriminately risks invisibility in generative search systems. Allowing all of them without distinction means losing control over what your content actually gets used for. This article gives concrete robots.txt directives and a reasoned decision guide for each individual AI crawler.