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| DuckAssistBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | DuckAssistBot is used by DuckDuckGo's DuckAssist feature to fetch content and generate realtime AI answers to user searches. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/duckassistbot |
| EchoboxBot | [Echobox](https://echobox.com) | Unclear at this time. | Data collection to support AI-powered products. | Unclear at this time. | Supports company's AI-powered social and email management products. |
| FacebookBot | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | Training language models | Up to 1 page per second | Officially used for training Meta "speech recognition technology," unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically. |
| facebookexternalhit | Meta/Facebook | [No](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313) | Ostensibly only for sharing, but likely used as an AI crawler as well | Unclear at this time. | Note that excluding FacebookExternalHit will block incorporating OpenGraph data when sharing in social media, including rich links in Apple's Messages app. [According to Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/), its purpose is "to crawl the content of an app or website that was shared on one of Meta’s family of apps…". However, see discussions [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/pull/21) and [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313) for evidence to the contrary. |
| Factset\_spyderbot | [Factset](https://www.factset.com/ai) | Unclear at this time. | AI model training. | No information provided. | Scrapes data for AI training. |
| FirecrawlAgent | [Firecrawl](https://www.firecrawl.dev/) | Yes | AI scraper and LLM training | No information provided. | Scrapes data for AI systems and LLM training. |
| FriendlyCrawler | Unknown | [Yes](https://imho.alex-kunz.com/2024/01/25/an-update-on-friendly-crawler) | We are using the data from the crawler to build datasets for machine learning experiments. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear who the operator is; but data is used for training/machine learning. |