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AI crawler and bot traffic management involves distinguishing three categories of automated traffic: legitimate search engine crawlers (such as Googlebot), AI training data collectors (such as OpenAI's GPTBot and Common Crawl), and malicious bots (content scraping, credential stuffing, inventory hoarding).
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