.htaccess

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|QualifiedBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|QualifiedBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot) [NC]
 RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]

Caddyfile

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 @aibots {
-        header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|QualifiedBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot)"
+        header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|QualifiedBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot)"
 }

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <img src="/assets/images/noai-logo.png" width="100" />
 
-This list contains AI-related crawlers of all types, regardless of purpose. We encourage you to contribute to and implement this list on your own site. See [information about the listed crawlers](./table-of-bot-metrics.md) and the [FAQ](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/FAQ.md).
+This is an open list of web crawlers associated with AI companies and the training of LLMs to block. We encourage you to contribute to and implement this list on your own site. See [information about the listed crawlers](./table-of-bot-metrics.md) and the [FAQ](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/FAQ.md).
 
 A number of these crawlers have been sourced from [Dark Visitors](https://darkvisitors.com) and we appreciate the ongoing effort they put in to track these crawlers. 
 

haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt

@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ meta-externalagent
 Meta-ExternalAgent
 meta-externalfetcher
 Meta-ExternalFetcher
-MistralAI-User/1.0
 NovaAct
 OAI-SearchBot
 omgili

nginx-block-ai-bots.conf

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|QualifiedBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|QualifiedBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot)") {
     return 403;
 }

robots.json

@@ -279,13 +279,6 @@
         "frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
         "description": "Meta-ExternalFetcher is dispatched by Meta AI products in response to user prompts, when they need to fetch an individual links. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher"
     },
-    "MistralAI-User/1.0": {
-      "operator": "Mistral AI",
-      "function": "Takes action based on user prompts.",
-      "frequency": "Only when prompted by a user.",
-      "description": "MistralAI-User is for user actions in LeChat. When users ask LeChat a question, it may visit a web page to help answer and include a link to the source in its response.",
-      "respect": "Yes"
-    },
     "NovaAct": {
         "operator": "Unclear at this time.",
         "respect": "Unclear at this time.",

robots.txt

@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ User-agent: meta-externalagent
 User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
 User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
 User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
-User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
 User-agent: NovaAct
 User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
 User-agent: omgili

table-of-bot-metrics.md

@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
 | Meta\-ExternalAgent | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Meta-ExternalAgent is a web crawler used by Meta to download training data for its AI models and improve its products by indexing content directly. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalagent |
 | meta\-externalfetcher | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Meta-ExternalFetcher is dispatched by Meta AI products in response to user prompts, when they need to fetch an individual links. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher |
 | Meta\-ExternalFetcher | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Meta-ExternalFetcher is dispatched by Meta AI products in response to user prompts, when they need to fetch an individual links. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher |
-| MistralAI\-User/1\.0 | Mistral AI | Yes | Takes action based on user prompts. | Only when prompted by a user. | MistralAI-User is for user actions in LeChat. When users ask LeChat a question, it may visit a web page to help answer and include a link to the source in its response. |
 | NovaAct | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Nova Act is an AI agent created by Amazon that can use a web browser. It can intelligently navigate and interact with websites to complete multi-step tasks on behalf of a human user. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/novaact |
 | OAI\-SearchBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | [Yes](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots) | Search result generation. | No information. | Crawls sites to surface as results in SearchGPT. |
 | omgili | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://webz.io/blog/web-data/what-is-the-omgili-bot-and-why-is-it-crawling-your-website/) | Data is sold. | No information. | Crawls sites for APIs used by Hootsuite, Sprinklr, NetBase, and other companies. Data also sold for research purposes or LLM training. |