From 94de9053e6cc67dc394049d3a4ca510474c89d2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: inference <admin@inferencium.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 19:19:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add file "robots.txt"

"robots.txt" is a file which allows the website owner to disallow bots,
crawlers, scrapers, and other potentially malicious or unwanted
behaviour on their website.
---
 robots.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 robots.txt

diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9fe47ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Inferencium - Website - robots.txt
+# Version: 1.0.0-beta.1
+
+# Copyright 2024 Jake Winters
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+
+# ChatGPT
+User-agent: ChatGPT-User
+Disallow: /
+
+User-agent: GPTbot
+Disallow: /
+
+
+# Google Bard
+User-agent: Google-Extended
+Disallow: /
+
+
+# iThenticate (http://www.slysearch.com/)
+## A tool which crawls the internet in search of copyright and intellectual property violations
+## which may be of interest to clients. These tools have no right to scan my website for such
+## purposes.
+User-agent: SlySearch
+Disallow: /
+
+
+# NameProtect (http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html)
+## A tool which crawls the internet in search of brand and intellectual property violations which
+## may be of interest to clients. These tools have no right to scan my website for such purposes.
+User-agent: NPBot
+Disallow: /
+
+
+# Turnitinbot (http://www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html)
+## A tool to scan the internet to allow educational institutions to compare content against
+## students' work in order to prevent plagiarism. These tools promote a bad precedence against
+## open-source content as it may be marked as copyrighted/plagiarised when it's actually legally
+## available for use under the copyright holder's license. I allow complete usage of my content for
+## educational purposes, without exception.
+User-agent: Turnitinbot
+Disallow: /