Embedded Files
If you have access to your site's code, there's an easy way to tell AI bot scrapers you don't want your website content to be used. Note they can choose to ignore this, but most will follow it.
For Cloudflare Users
If you have your domain on Cloudflare, you can use their AI bot protection! There are two sections to update:
Security
Click on your domain name in Cloudflare.
Go to Security → Bots.
Turn on "Block AI Bots" and "AI Labyrinth".
AI Audit
Click on your domain name in Cloudflare.
Go to AI Audit.
Set various bots to Block. Note you may still want to enable Googlebot and BingBot so your site can appear in search engines. I also recommend leaving archive.org_bot allowed as they are a wonderful organization.
Blocking in HTML
In-between the <head></head> tags, add the following:
<meta name="CCBot" content="nofollow">
<meta name="robots" content="noai, noimageai">
Shopify AI Checkout
Shopify now adds a connection to various AIs (including ChatGPT) by default. Make sure you protect yourself by forcing the customer to use your own website and not make purchases without even visiting. This ensures that if the AI hallucinates something wrong about your items, they are still forced to view the correct info.
Search for the "Agentic" app/sales channel at the top of your Shopify admin.
You should see something that looks like the following image.
Turn off the options!
If you can't turn something off, hover over an AI tool and click the settings button. Make sure you at least turn off "direct checkout"
If you aren't find the Agentic app on your account, it could be in your settings:
Go to Settings -> Sales Channels -> Agentic storefronts
Click the AI you want to disable checkout on
Under "Checkout", make sure it says either...
"Customers complete purchases on your checkout"
If it says "Allow customers to purchase directly in this channel", make sure the toggle is off
Google Sites
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