Does ilmeteo.it block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite ilmeteo.it?

• ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
• Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
• Perplexity: its search crawlers may read the site

ilmeteo.it opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, Common Crawl, ByteDance, Meta. Training crawlers and answer crawlers are separate: blocking training doesn't by itself remove a site from AI answers.

AI crawler access, bot by bot

How ilmeteo.it compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; ilmeteo.it is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; ilmeteo.it is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; ilmeteo.it does not.
• Among 169 sites of similar popularity, 25% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*standard=1
Disallow: /?t=*
Disallow: /?f=*
Disallow: /?b=*
Disallow: /?p=*
Disallow: /?page=*
Disallow: /portale/node/*/amp

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /*standard=1
Disallow: /?t=*
Disallow: /?f=*
Disallow: /?b=*
Disallow: /?p=*
Disallow: /?page=*
Disallow: /portale/node/*/amp
Disallow: /maps/
Disallow: /password/
Disallow: /892424/

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Omgilibot
User-agent: Omgili
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.

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