Based solely on the provided article body, the author is giving up on blocking AI bots for now. In July 2025, the author noticed that despite blocking ChatGPT via robots.txt, the bot was still indexing and regurgitating content from the site, possibly from other sources like the Internet Archive. In December 2025, a judge ruled that robots.txt did not qualify as an effective control mechanism for protecting copyright, meaning circumventing it is not an infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The author recently checked every major AI company’s tools and found that Plagiarism Today content was easily available despite being blocked by robots.txt on both the server and CDN level. The author concludes that robots.txt doesn’t matter anymore.