Exactly! We haven’t seen them (yet) treat the AI setting as a search crawl setting, so for now you can safely set it to block AI crawlers, we believe. (This is an opaque issue we are not allowed by Google to know much about). If this changes, we will announce it for sure. But it’s definitely nerve-wracking, and then on top of this is the fact that any AI company can just… choose to ignore the settings! Eventually we’d catch them, but the AI folks are pretty wild / unconcerned about us I’m sure.
Also, for all the emails that arrive to Gmail, Google trains on the emails, so unless people only read your work on the Substack app and you don’t send emails, Google is still training on your work.
Hmm. Right now I have that setting defaulted to off, but I don't want to lose my heard work at SEO. Not sure what to do?
Exactly! We haven’t seen them (yet) treat the AI setting as a search crawl setting, so for now you can safely set it to block AI crawlers, we believe. (This is an opaque issue we are not allowed by Google to know much about). If this changes, we will announce it for sure. But it’s definitely nerve-wracking, and then on top of this is the fact that any AI company can just… choose to ignore the settings! Eventually we’d catch them, but the AI folks are pretty wild / unconcerned about us I’m sure.
Also, for all the emails that arrive to Gmail, Google trains on the emails, so unless people only read your work on the Substack app and you don’t send emails, Google is still training on your work.
Good lord, how depressing. Though they're not going to learn much from my emails lol