Topic evidence page

llms.txt contradiction / AI crawlers

Source-backed creator statements and evidence excerpts related to llms.txt contradiction / AI crawlers.

2public insight cards
2source records
2creators

Top Creators

Public Insight Cards

These are deterministic, source-backed cards from the offline export. They are not live AI answers.

Adobe research is cited as finding no signs that major AI crawlers checked `llms.txt` across 1,000+ websites, challenging GEO hype around the file.

@@build_in_public · asserts

A few months ago, the digital marketing world was buzzing and in some cases panicking over something called Llms. TXT. This is a plain text file that was supposed to tell large language models how to use a website's content. But for anyone in traditional SEO, the idea didn't quite add up. After all, LLMs were already good at pulling from websites. Still,...

Open

The creator says `llms.txt` may help LLMs find important website information, Anthropic is likely to support it, Google says it will not adopt it, and ChatGPT support is unconfirmed.

@@tjrobertson52 · asserts

There's a new file you might have to start including on your website if you want large language models like ChatGPT to crawl you. It's called LLMS.txt, and it could be very important for ranking in these large language models. So I just wanna talk about everything we know so far and also what we don't know. So you might have heard of a robots.txt file tha...

Open

Related Source Records

A few months ago, the digital marketing world was buzzing - and in some cases, panicking - ov...

@@build_in_public · 2025-08-14

A few months ago, the digital marketing world was buzzing and in some cases panicking over something called Llms. TXT. This is a plain text file that was supposed to tell large language models how to use a website's content. But for anyone in traditional SEO, the idea didn't quite add up. After all, LLMs were already good at pulling from websites. Still,...

Open

Your website might be invisible to ChatGPT without this new file 👀 LLMs.txt guides AI to your...

@@tjrobertson52 · 2025-08-02

There's a new file you might have to start including on your website if you want large language models like ChatGPT to crawl you. It's called LLMS.txt, and it could be very important for ranking in these large language models. So I just wanna talk about everything we know so far and also what we don't know. So you might have heard of a robots.txt file tha...

Open

Evidence Passages

A few months ago, the digital marketing world was buzzing and in some cases panicking over something called Llms. TXT. This is a plain text file that was supposed to tell large language models how to use a website's content. But for anyone in traditional SEO, the idea didn't quite add up. After all, LLMs were already good at pulling from websites. Still, big headlines followed. Venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz published a widely shared piece how Generative Engine Optimization rewrites the rules of search....
There's a new file you might have to start including on your website if you want large language models like ChatGPT to crawl you. It's called LLMS.txt, and it could be very important for ranking in these large language models. So I just wanna talk about everything we know so far and also what we don't know. So you might have heard of a robots.txt file that tells web crawlers like Google whether or not they're allowed to crawl certain pages of your website. Lms.txt is like that for large language models, except i...
lts and confuse users. And then in the middle, and perhaps the most important, is ChatGPT. To my knowledge have not made a public statement about it, but there have been some people reporting that they've seen ChatGPT crawling their lms dot txt in their log files. Now, just because they're looking at your lms dot txt doesn't mean they're actually adopting the protocol. So we'll just have to wait and see on that one. But if you're wondering if you should add this to your website, you might as well. It's really ea...