Building DataGate: How to protect your content when AI bots ignore robots.txt

Hi everyone!

I’m an AI developer, and lately, I’ve been frustrated with how Big Tech and aggressive scrapers ignore robots.txt rules to steal creators content without permission.

Since I train models myself on Hugging Face, I know exactly how these crawlers bypass standard blocks. That's why I built DataGate—a perimeter shield that detects and stops hidden AI bots before they can scrape your data.

Why am I giving it away for free? Because I want to help creators protect their hard work, and I need your honest feedback to make it bulletproof.

If you have a website, blog, or project and want to keep AI scrapers out, I'd love for you to try it.