Should you block community access to LLMs and AI ChatBots?

Should you block community access to LLMs and AI ChatBots?

Kaustubh Katdare

Community Administrator

Updated: Mar 19, 2025

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Is anyone concerned about the chatbots and LLMs like ChatGPT and Perplexity crawling your content, training their models and then ultimately driving the traffic away from you?
It’s a different story with Google. Google shows your website or community link in its search results. However, the modern chatbots do not always credit the original website; because they ‘generate’ the content on the fly through different sources.
This takes us to the question: Should you block the AI chatbots and LLMs from crawling your community or website? Or should you let them consume your content? Let me know.

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Thomas Browne

Member • 3w

On our community, we don't restrict any bot from crawling our site. Frankly, it's foolish to prevent LLMs from crawling and indexing your content.

I firmly believe that the LLMs will have to credit the original sources they used to train. I'd focus on building authentic discussions and work on engaging my community members.

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Paula Derrenger

Member • 4d

No, you should not block LLMs and Chatbots from accessing your community. I've recently began learning about SEO and it seems to be a great way to build your community. Free traffic! Bring it on!

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