Byebye AI

Byebye AI WordPress Plugin to prevent AI bots from crawling your website. Features - Blocks known AI crawler according to the user agent string. - If possible the .htaccess is used for blocking. - Additionally robots.txt - Daily blocklist updates from the ai.robots.txt project Installation Requirements - A writable .htaccess - No static robots.txt Production - Head over to releases - Download 'byebye-ai.zip' - Upload and activate it like any other WordPress plugin - WordPress will auto-update the plugin as long as it is active Development - cd into your plugin directory - $ git clone git@github.com:mcguffin/byebye-ai.git - $ cd byebye-ai - $ npm install && npm run dev Using Composer NAQ (Never asked questions) But AI is soooo cooooool! Why keep it from scraping my content? There is a huge expropriation going on, driven by huge AI companies like Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Apple or Meta. It is you, who is being ripped off the produces of your passion or profession. Thoughts you did a lot of research on, worksyou devoted half a lifetime on creating them, emotions you felt and tried to express, all of this is taken away from you and stuffed into a stochastic mo