Does patreon.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite patreon.com?

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

patreon.com doesn't opt out of AI model training through robots.txt. 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 patreon.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; patreon.com does not.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; patreon.com does not.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; patreon.com is one of them.
• Among 196 sites of similar popularity, 29% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /bePatronDone
Disallow: /productPurchaseDone
Disallow: /mwebWindowDone
Disallow: /file
Disallow: /patronNext
Disallow: /userNext
Disallow: /bePatron
Disallow: /REST/auth/CSRFTicket
Disallow: /user.php
Disallow: /_generated
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /_private/admin-tools/
Disallow: /corgi$
Disallow: /checkout/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

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

Sites with a similar AI policy

• cambridge.org · 1 blocked

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