What is SBIntuitionsBot? AI crawler guide

SBIntuitionsBot by SB Intuitions: SB Intuitions crawler for data used in AI development and information analysis. Check its reported user-agent, robots.txt behavior, source, and verification guidance.

SB Intuitions crawler for data used in AI development and information analysis.

What is SBIntuitionsBot?

SBIntuitionsBot is a web crawler operated by SB Intuitions, a Japanese company. It collects publicly available web data to support AI development and information analysis. The bot identifies itself with the user-agent token SBIntuitionsBot and respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol, meaning it follows rules set in robots.txt files. Its activity is part of SB Intuitions' efforts to gather data for training and improving AI models. The crawler's behavior and purpose are documented on the operator's official website, which provides details about its data collection practices.

What it's for

For site owners, SBIntuitionsBot represents a crawler that may collect content from your site for use in AI development and analysis by SB Intuitions. If you allow it, your pages could be included in datasets that help train AI models. If you prefer to keep your content out of such datasets, you can block the bot. The decision affects whether your site's data may contribute to SB Intuitions' AI projects.

SBIntuitionsBot collects pages for model training. Training inclusion is not the same as being cited, so measure where AI answers actually cite your site before drawing conclusions from crawl logs.

How to handle SBIntuitionsBot

To prevent SBIntuitionsBot from crawling your site, add a rule in your robots.txt file targeting the user-agent token SBIntuitionsBot. The bot honors robots.txt directives, so disallowing it will stop its crawler from accessing specified paths. You can block the entire site or specific directories. The page already shows the standard snippet for a full disallow.

robots.txt rule

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot Disallow: /

Blocking cost

Blocking SBIntuitionsBot may prevent your site's content from being used in SB Intuitions' AI development and analysis, which could reduce your visibility in any AI-driven services or models they create.

Examples

• SBIntuitionsBot crawls a news website to collect articles for training language models.
• It accesses a public research paper repository to gather data for information analysis.
• The bot visits an e-commerce site to understand product descriptions for AI development.

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• GPTBot: Also tracked as a training crawler.
• KimiBot: Also tracked as a training crawler.
• AI Training Opt-Out: SBIntuitionsBot is a training crawler tied to this policy decision.
• Robots.txt: Robots.txt is the control file used to allow or block SBIntuitionsBot.