Does people.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite people.com?

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

people.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 people.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; people.com does not.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; people.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; people.com is one of them.
• Among 193 sites of similar popularity, 30% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /embed?
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /thmb/

User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
Allow: */presented/
Allow: */integrated/

User-agent: amazon-kendra
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
User-agent: Amzn-User
User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: archive.org_bot
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-ads
User-agent: Baiduspider-cpro
User-agent: Baiduspider-favo
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
User-agent: Baiduspider-news
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: ERNIEBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: heritrix
User-agent: iAskBot
User-agent: iaskspider
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: imageSpider
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kagibot
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: Mastodon
User-agent: Meltwaterimageservice
User-agent: MeltwaterNews
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: MistralAI-Index
User-agent: MistralAI-user
User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
User-agent: Neevabot
User-agent: news-please
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Quora-Bot
User-agent: Shap-User
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: VettedAiBot
User-agent: Webzio
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: Yisouspider
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

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

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