It’s best to use either Cloudflare (best IMO) or Anubis.

1. If you don’t want any AI bots, then you can setup Anubis (open source; requires JavaScript to be enabled by the end user): https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

2. Cloudflare automatically setups robots.txt file to block “AI crawlers” (but you can setup to allow “AI search” for better SEO). Eg: https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/#putting-up-a-guardrail-with-cloudflares-managed-robots-txt

Cloudflare also has an option of “AI labyrinth” to serve maze of fake data to AI bots who don’t respect robots.txt file.

Most people are unaware that even open source projects have licenses: Permissive license, Strong Copyleft, Weak Copyleft etc.

Some resources:

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20240409042029/https://www.mend.io/blog/top-open-source-licenses-explained/
2. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses
3. https://fast.org/is-your-software-ip-really-your-ip/

Just why? AI browsers have serious security/privacy implications.
For e.g:

1. https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/
2. Blog series: https://brave.com/series/security-privacy-in-agentic-browsing/

The software engineer acknowledged that AI tools can help improve productivity if used properly, but for programmers with relatively limited experience, he feels the harm is greater than the benefit. Most of the junior developers at the company, he explained, don’t remember the syntax of the language they’re using due to their overreliance on Cursor.

Good luck for the future developers I guess.

companies that’ve spent money on AI enterprise licenses need to show some sort of ROI to the bean-counters. Hence, mandates.

Can’t wait for AI bubble to pop. If this continues, expect more incidents/outages due to AI generated slop code in the future.