Kangaroo Bot

Last updated a day ago.

What is Kangaroo Bot?

About

Kangaroo Bot is used by the company Kangaroo LLM to download data to train open source AI models tailored to Australian language and culture.

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Detail

Operator	Kangaroo LLM
Documentation	https://kangaroollm.com.au/kangaroo-bot/

Type

AI Data Scraper

Downloads web content to train AI models

Expected Behavior

It's generally unclear how AI data scrapers choose which websites to crawl and how often to crawl them. They might choose to visits websites with a higher information density more frequently, depending on the type of AI models they're training. For example, it would make sense that an agent training an LLM (Large Language Model) would favor sites with a lot of regularly updating text content.

Insights

Kangaroo Bot's Activity on Your Website

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Other Websites

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Access Control

Should I Block Kangaroo Bot?

It's up to you. AI data scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you're concerned about attribution or how your creative work could be used in the resulting AI model.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token	Description
`Kangaroo Bot`	Should match instances of Kangaroo Bot

You can block Kangaroo Bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This should block Kangaroo Bot

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

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