# AI Deny

AI Deny is a free WordPress plugin from Code For Broke that asks AI training and AI search crawlers to stay out of your site, one crawler at a time, without editing files.

Type: Code For Broke product (WordPress plugin)
Live at: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai-deny/
What it is: A free WordPress plugin
Good for: Sites that don't want to train AI models
Covers: 30+ AI training and search crawlers
Requires: WordPress 6.0 or later

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## What it does

AI Deny lets a WordPress site owner tell AI crawlers to stay out, one crawler at a time, from a settings page. It covers more than 30 AI training and AI search crawlers, including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Apple, Perplexity, Meta, ByteDance, and Common Crawl.

## How it works

- **A switch for each crawler**, with a plain-English description of who runs it and what it's for. Changes save as you make them.
- **No files to edit.** The rules are added to the site's robots.txt through WordPress itself. If the site already has a robots.txt file on the server, the plugin won't activate, because WordPress couldn't serve its rules.
- **Meta tags too.** It adds “noai” and “noimageai” meta tags to every page.
- **Nothing blocked by default.** You decide which crawlers to turn away.
- **Quiet and tidy.** It makes no outside requests and removes its settings when it's uninstalled.

## The honest part

A robots.txt rule is a request, not a lock. Well-behaved crawlers follow it, and the plugin says so plainly rather than promising more than it can deliver.