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[Bots] Updates to AI bot language (#23137)
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src/content/docs/bots/concepts/bot/index.mdx

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## AI bots
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You can block artificial intelligence (AI) bots, crawlers, and scrapers from scraping your website content and training large language models (LLM) to recreate it without your permission.
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You can opt into a managed rule that will block bots that we categorize as artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers (“AI Bots”) from visiting your website. Customers may choose to do this to prevent AI-related usage of their content, such as training large language models (LLM).
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### Which bots are blocked
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src/content/docs/bots/concepts/bot/verified-bots/categories.mdx

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title: Verified bot categories
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label: Categories
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You can segment your verified bot traffic by its type and purpose by adding the Verified Bot Categories field `cf.verified_bot_category` as a filter criteria in [WAF Custom rules](/waf/custom-rules/), [Advanced Rate Limiting](/waf/rate-limiting-rules/), and Late Transform rules.
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The Verified Bot Categories field is not compatible with legacy Firewall rules.
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The Verified Bot Categories field is not compatible with legacy Firewall rules.
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## Categories
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| Aggregators | `Aggregator` | Pinterest, Indeed Jobsbot |
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| AI Assistant | `AI Assistant` | Perplexity-User, DuckAssistBot |
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| AI Crawler | `AI Crawler` | Google Bard, ChatGPT bot |
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| AI Search | `AI Search` | SearchGPT |
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| Archiver | `Archiver` | Internet Archive, CommonCrawl |
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| AI Search | `AI Search` | OAI-SearchBot |
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| Archiver | `Archiver` | Internet Archive, CommonCrawl |
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| Feed fetcher | `Feed Fetcher` | RSS or Podcast feed updaters |
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| Monitoring or analytics | `Monitoring & Analytics` | Uptime Monitors |
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| Page preview | `Page Preview` | Facebook, Slack, Twitter, or Discord Link Preview tools |

src/content/partials/bots/list-ai-bots.mdx

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When you enable this feature, Cloudflare will block bots that have been identified as AI Crawlers. These bots include, but are not limited to, the following bots:
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When you enable this feature, Cloudflare will block the following bots:
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- `Amazonbot` (Amazon)
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- `Applebot` (Apple)
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- `Bytespider` (ByteDance)
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- `ChatGPT-User` (OpenAI)
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- `ClaudeBot` (Anthropic)
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- `Claude-SearchBot` (Anthropic)
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- `Claude-User` (Anthropic)
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- `DuckAssistBot` (DuckDuckGo)
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- `Google-CloudVertexBot` (Google)
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- `GoogleOther` (Google)
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- `GPTBot` (OpenAI)
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- `Meta-ExternalAgent` (Meta)
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- `OAI-SearchBot` (OpenAI)
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- `PerplexityBot` (Perplexity)
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- `Perplexity-User` (Perplexity)
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- `PetalBot` (Huawei)
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- `TikTokSpider` (ByteDance)
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- `CCBot` (Common Crawl)
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In addition to this list, all verified bots that are classified as `AI Search`, `AI Assistant`, `AI Crawler`, or an `Archiver`, as well as a number of unverified bots that fall into the [verified bot categories](/bots/concepts/bot/verified-bots/categories/) are blocked. It does not block verified bots that fall into the `Search Engine` categories.
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In addition to this list, [verified bots](https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots#verified-bots) that are classified in AI-related categories such as `AI Assistant`, `AI Crawler`, or an `Archiver`, as well as a number of unverified bots that behave similarly, are included in the rule. This rule does not include verified bots that fall into the `Search Engine` categories.
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The bots classified in these categories may change in real time as new AI bots are detected.
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These categories, and the bots classified in these categories, may change from time to time.
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Some AI bots overlap with definitely automated bots and verified bots, the latter becoming verified AI bots.
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For a partial list of verified AI Bots, refer to the [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots#verified-bots) categories of AI Search, AI Assistant, or AI Crawler, as well as some other bots that harvest data for AI training.
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If you are a bot operator and feel your bot may have been incorrectly categorized, [add your bot to the list of verified bots](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/configurations/verified-bots).
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If you are a bot operator and feel your bot may have been incorrectly categorized, [add your bot to the list of verified bots](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/configurations/verified-bots).

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