Does slate.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite slate.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

slate.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, 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 slate.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; slate.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; slate.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; slate.com does not.
• Among 199 sites of similar popularity, 19% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /_

User-agent: 008
User-agent: AdsTxtCrawler
User-agent: AgentDataBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: ApifyBot
User-agent: ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: BeansLLM-CorpusBot
User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: BixelBot
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Brightbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
User-agent: CloudVertexBot
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: CohereBot
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: CragCrawler
User-agent: Crawlspace
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: dcrawl
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: DesearchBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Doubaobot
User-agent: ERNIEBot
User-agent: ExaBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: HelloworkJobPostingBot
User-agent: HenkBot
User-agent: HTTrack
User-agent: HTTrack 3.0
User-agent: Hunyuan
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: imageSpider
User-agent: IndeedJobBot
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Keenable-User
User-agent: KeenableBot
User-agent: KimiBot
User-agent: KimiCrawler
User-agent: KrawlerBot
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: MetaInspector
User-agent: MetaJobBot
User-agent: micro-crawl
User-agent: MistralBot
User-agent: MoonshotBot
User-agent: MoonSpider
User-agent: Mozilla-Tabstack
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: newspaper
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: nyt_scraping
User-agent: Offline Explorer
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: OpenindexSpider
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Potions
User-agent: Querit-SearchBot
User-agent: QueritBot
User-agent: QwenBot
User-agent: recraft-image-dataset
User-agent: ReflectionBot
User-agent: SalamandraVLM
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: ScryBot
User-agent: ServerHunterSpider
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: SofyaBot
User-agent: Spider
User-agent: StatsDroneBot
User-agent: TalarionFrontierCrawler
User-agent: TavilyBot
User-agent: Terra Cotta
User-agent: TerraCotta
User-agent: Thinkbot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: web-image-collection-research
User-agent: webzio-extended
User-agent: YiBot
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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