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> If there was a paid-only search engine with dubious ethics practices that was overwhelming my site with traffic in order resell search trained off of (among other things) my personally generated content, I would absolute block it.

Let’s compare Google with OpenAI:

Paid-only: neither check; both have free tiers, eventually supported by ads (Google took 10+ years before it got littered with ads, I promise OpenAI will make the ad experience even stinkier because they keep you on the site as opposed to Google who only have you for a few seconds. The ads will be blinky, and they will be nested into the content.

Dubious ethics: both check.

Overwhelming bot traffic: both check.

Make money on your content: both check.

> LLMs are not search engines, and I'm not gaining any followers or customers in any meaningful way because an LLM indexes my site.

So paywall it?

The Anubis PoW captcha is an option, too. Then you will block trainers and allow agents.