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Your Noiseyard website opts out of AI training unless you choose otherwise. We tell AI companies not to train their AI on your website, and your site stays in Google and Bing. You can change this in your Website Settings at any time.
AI companies use bots to read websites. Some of these bots collect pages to train AI. Others read pages so that AI chatbots can answer questions and link to websites.
A website tells these bots what they may do in a file called robots.txt. Your choice in Website Settings decides what your website's robots.txt says. When you opt out of AI training, it tells AI companies not to use your website to train their AI. This covers OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (for Gemini), Apple, Meta, Amazon, Common Crawl, ByteDance and many others. We keep this list up to date.
We also add a tag to your pages that Microsoft reads. It asks Microsoft to use only each page's link, title and a short snippet, both in Copilot and to train its AI.
Go to your Control Panel, then Site Management, then Website Settings.
Under AI and your website, choose an option.
Click Apply Changes.
The change works right away on your live website. You do not need to publish anything.
Allow all AI use: AI companies can train their AI on your website, and AI chatbots can read it.
Opt out of AI training: this is the recommended option, and it is the default for every website. We tell AI companies not to train their AI on your website. Most AI chatbots can still find and link to your site, and your Google and Bing search results are not affected. The Gemini app may stop using your site in its answers. Copilot, Microsoft's AI chatbot, shows only the link to your page, its title and a short snippet.
Opt out of AI training and AI chatbots: we also ask the bots of AI chatbots and AI search tools to stay away from your website. This includes ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Meta AI. Your site stays in Google and Bing search, but AI chatbots may stop showing it. Link previews keep working when someone shares your website on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Discord, Telegram, Slack or Pinterest. Other bots that are not search engines or link previews are asked to stay away too, such as the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
The third option appears in Website Settings once it becomes available.
The setting covers AI bots that say who they are. No website can recognize bots that pretend to be normal visitors.
Nothing that AI companies collected from your website before can be removed.
It covers your Noiseyard website only. The same music or photos on Spotify, YouTube, Instagram or Bandcamp follow the rules of those platforms.
Your pictures are also kept at Noiseyard's storage address, which this setting does not cover.
Apple's Siri and Spotlight can still use your website in their answers.
Google's AI answers in Google Search, called AI Overviews and AI Mode, are not part of this setting. Google controls them separately in Google Search Console, its tool for website owners. Only an owner of your domain's property in Search Console can change it.
To keep your website out of these AI answers, open Search Console and go to Settings, then Search generative AI. Choose Exclude. Your normal Google results stay the same.
Your website's rules change as soon as you click Apply Changes. AI companies see your choice the next time they read your rules, usually within a day.
Anyone can see your website's rules. Add /robots.txt to the end of your website's address, for example yourband.com/robots.txt. If you opted out of AI training, the file lists AI bots by name, such as GPTBot, each followed by the line Disallow: /. This line asks the bot to stay away from your whole website.
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