Why would I want bots to read my blog?

I recently un-denylisted AI crawler UAs from my blog's robots.txt, for several reasons:

- My blog is static content and it costs me ~nothing to serve the requests.

- The bots were ignoring robots.txt anyway.

- If there's ultimately a human driving the bot (e.g. someone asking "summarise this article"), I don't mind.

- It's like trying to block search engines. Just as I want my blog to turn up in search results, I want agents etc. to know it exists, too.

My original motivation for denylisting, years ago, was that LLMs were simply not very good, so training-set scrapers seemed like all downside with no upside.

Why would bots and the people operating them care what you want?

Like it or not, but it's the intermediary layer now, between you and your users.