Does slideshare.net block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite slideshare.net?

• 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

slideshare.net 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 slideshare.net compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; slideshare.net does not.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; slideshare.net is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; slideshare.net does not.
• Among 201 sites of similar popularity, 28% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /~/
Disallow: /index.html
Disallow: /slideshow/*/lead-form
Disallow: /*/leads/*/show_form.html
Disallow: /*/leads/*/jsplayer_show_lead_form.html
Disallow: /*/followers$
Disallow: /*/followers/
Disallow: /*/following$
Disallow: /*/following/
Disallow: /business/leads/show_form.html
Disallow: /business/leads/jsplayer_show_lead_form.html
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /business/premium/is_payment_pending
Disallow: /business/adshare
Disallow: /business/feedback
Disallow: /business/promotion
Disallow: /business/adshare/faqs
Disallow: /comment/
Disallow: /community/
Disallow: /event/
Disallow: /favorite/
Disallow: /group/
Disallow: /ia/
Disallow: /main/
Disallow: /pingback/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /slideshow/embed_code/
Disallow: /uploads/
Disallow: /nextjs/
Disallow: */favorites_list/*
Disallow: /ab_tests
Disallow: /frontend-track/
Disallow: /fullscreen/ReportLinker/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /language?
Disallow: /mobile/

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.

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