From ab24e41106367e3161c8f264f6b5f3ce8c938f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glyn Normington <glyn.normington@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:02:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that DeepSeekBot does not respect robots.txt

Fixes https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/198
---
 robots.json | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 640dcc3..9214874 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
     },
     "DeepSeekBot": {
         "operator": "DeepSeek",
-        "respect": "Unclear at this time.",
+        "respect": "No",
         "function": "Training language models and improving AI products",
         "frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
         "description": "DeepSeekBot is a web crawler used by DeepSeek to train its language models and improve its AI products."