A dead bot lies next to a SLOP sign, marking the spot where a creepy AI crawler was prevented from scraping content without consent.

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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 10:06:34 JST Anil Dash

   Truly my greatest professional joy is that, not only did we get to build a tool to help people stop AI bots from scraping up their work without consent, I was able to have our in-house artist create a SLOP sign to mark the spot where the bots expire.

   If you are a non-profit or open source project that does good internet stuff, we’ll protect you for free. If not, then you can pay us money and we will hook you up. Either way, good tools to put you in control over the bots. https://www.fastly.com/blog/take-back-control-make-ai-bots-play-by-your-rules