I don’t like AI slop seeping into every crevice of our online (and, increasingly, offline) lives, but I also don’t think blocking LLM crawlers on my personal sites will do anything to quell the deluge or reduce the value of these LLMs to a remotely measurable degree.

Even if every single person who felt inclined to block LLM crawlers did so, I don’t think LLMs would be suddenly starved for data.

It seems like a silly exercise to me.