Does newyorker.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite newyorker.com?

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

newyorker.com opts out of AI training by Anthropic, Google, 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 newyorker.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; newyorker.com does not.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; newyorker.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; newyorker.com is one of them.
• Among 148 sites of similar popularity, 24% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /*?page
Allow: /*.xml?
Allow: /*.js
Allow: /*.css
Allow: /*.ico
Allow: /verso/static
Allow: /*.svg
Allow: /*.png
Allow: /*.jpg
Allow: /*.jpeg
Allow: /*rss?
Allow: /*?id=
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /user-context
Disallow: /preview/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /product/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /services.min.js
Disallow: /com.condenast/yv8
Disallow: /reject-all
Disallow: */c_limit/
Allow: /v2/offers/tnya
Allow: /*?*utm_medium=social
Allow: /*?*utm_medium=syndication
Disallow: /cartoon/
Disallow: /newsletters/

User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: archive.org_bot
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: factset_spyderbot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: heritrix
User-agent: ia_archiver
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Shap-User
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Yisouspider
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: Webzio
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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• newsweek.com · 7 blocked
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• marketwatch.com · 9 blocked
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