Google now allows opt-out from your website being used to train their AI models while still showing up in search.
Once OpenAI added the ability to block their crawler, Google had no option but to do so as well.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894779/google-ai-extended-training-data-toggle-bard-vertex
They already crawled the whole web and used it to train their stupid chatbots!
We need a word for this illusion of agency as a CYA in case of legal action