How to block Google Bard and other Google "AI" scraping:

Add this two lines to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers?hl=en#google-extended

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Google Crawler (User Agent) Overview | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers

Google crawlers discover and scan websites. This overview will help you understand the common Google crawlers including the Googlebot user agent.

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If you've been blocking AI from scraping your website, there's another one to add. This time it's Google.

I've updated my post on the subject.

https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website/

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Block the Bots that Feed “AI” Models by Scraping Your Website – Neil Clarke