They don't really have to be. I don't have many mitigations and the AI bots crawl my site and it's fine. The robots.txt is pretty simple too and is really just

They don't really have to be. I don't have many mitigations and the AI bots crawl my site and it's fine. The robots.txt is pretty simple too and is really just set up to help the robot not get stuck in loops (I use Mediawiki as the CMS and it has a lot of GET paths that a normal person wouldn't choose). In my case, a machine near my desk hosts everything and it's fine.