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Your call — blocking is a legitimate choice
DeepSeek-Bot is DeepSeek's training/data crawler. Blocking it opts your content out of DeepSeek's model training and datasets. For this crawler, training and citation are separate decisions — citations are governed by the operator's retrieval crawler.
Common reasons to block: copyright or licensing policy, competitive sensitivity, paywalled content.
Common reasons to allow: maximum AI reach, research visibility, and being part of the datasets future models learn from.
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Community source Community-maintained list — last reviewed 2026-09-12
https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
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