# Defeating AI scraping

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/defeating-ai-scraping/45180>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [November 7, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/defeating-ai-scraping/45180 "2024-11-07T16:08:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![zamboknee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/zamboknee/32/25532_2.png) [@zamboknee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/zamboknee)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/defeating-ai-scraping/45180/1 "2024-11-07T16:08:26Z")

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Maybe this is a silly question but I was wondering if there’s anything either:

- Built INTO RW or
- 3rd party plugin or stack

that can prevent AI from scraping a site and grabbing information like audio, original paintings/artwork?

Is that a thing?..at all?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/defeating-ai-scraping/45180/2 "2024-11-07T16:11:15Z")

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> [@How to prevent ChatGPT from crawling your website](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-to-prevent-chatgpt-from-crawling-your-website/42591):
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> Came across an interesting article and thought I’d share it. ChatGPT is pretty neat and useful for a lot of folks, but there are also those who don’t take too kindly to it scraping their data to train their LLMs (large language models). For example those who publish copyrighted works online, or those that have to pay the server costs for the bandwidth that ChatGPT consumes when it’s crawling their site. There are even those that just don’t want to contribute to the potential future AI uprising. …

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**Author:** ![zamboknee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/zamboknee/32/25532_2.png) [@zamboknee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/zamboknee)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/defeating-ai-scraping/45180/3 "2024-11-07T16:16:54Z")

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Thanks Dan. I’ll check that out.