Does scribd.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite scribd.com?

• 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

scribd.com opts out of AI training by Anthropic, Common Crawl, ByteDance. 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 scribd.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; scribd.com does not.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; scribd.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; scribd.com does not.
• Among 205 sites of similar popularity, 28% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/d/
Disallow: /*/followers
Disallow: /*/following
Disallow: /*/pingback$
Disallow: /*/info$
Disallow: /*/subscribers$
Disallow: /*/friends$
Disallow: /*/*/data$
Disallow: /*?format=json
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /account-settings
Disallow: /analytics/
Disallow: /api?
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /archive/
Disallow: /blocks?
Disallow: /blocks/
Disallow: /book_annotations/
Disallow: /book-preview/*/recommenders
Disallow: /book-preview/*/shadow_loader
Disallow: /cpds2/
Disallow: /cpspa/
Disallow: /csrf_token
Disallow: /doc-page/animated-hero-banner-recommender-props
Disallow: /doc-page/download-receipt-modal-props/
Disallow: /doc-page/embed-modal-props/
Disallow: /doc-page/exclusive-free-trial-props/
Disallow: /doc-page/flag-document-modal-props/
Disallow: /doc-page/paused-user-download-modal-props
Disallow: /doc-page/pmp-login-join-modal-props/
Disallow: /doc-page/recommenders/
Disallow: /doc-page/seo-roadblock-props/
Disallow: /doc_landing
Disallow: /doc/protected/
Disallow: /docinfo/
Disallow: /document_auxillary_content/
Disallow: /document_downloads/
Disallow: /documents/*/comments?
Disallow: /documents/search
Disallow: /embeds/

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

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

Sites with a similar AI policy

• behance.net · 7 blocked
• slideshare.net · 3 blocked
• tandfonline.com · 1 blocked
• goodreads.com · 2 blocked
• pixabay.com · 6 blocked
• aol.com · 5 blocked
• businessinsider.com · 3 blocked
• tripadvisor.com · 6 blocked

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