Mission brief · Tactic 02
Protect human-made work
- Difficulty
- Time
- 20 min setup
You can't make every crawler polite, but you can put a few “don't just take this” markers on your work — enough to make misuse harder and harder to excuse.
Field steps
- 1
Sign it loudly: put your name and year on the work itself (not just a page corner) and in the metadata. If it gets lifted, at least the evidence travels with it.
- 2
Layer visible + invisible marks: visible watermarks stop casual grabs; perturbation tools (the Glaze / Nightshade idea) add noise that fouls training.
- 3
Opt out: switch off “train models on my content” in platform settings, and drop a robots.txt that blocks known AI crawlers at your site root.