# Answers | AI Commerce Watch

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Direct answers to the questions readers ask most.

[What are AI crawlers and why are they on my store?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/what-are-ai-crawlers.md)

Automated readers from AI companies collecting training data and grounding shopping answers - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and others. They read your catalog either to build models or to power AI product recommendations.

[Should I block AI crawlers from my ecommerce site?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/block-ai-crawlers.md)

Not blanket. Answer engines that cite and link can send qualified shoppers; bulk harvesters mostly take. Classify first, then allow, throttle, or block per class - robots.txt alone is intent, not enforcement.

[What is GPTBot and does it send traffic?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/gptbot-what-is.md)

GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler for collecting training data. It reads pages but does not itself send shoppers back; answer features and agentic browsing are separate systems with different behavior.

[What is agentic commerce?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/agentic-commerce-meaning.md)

AI assistants completing purchases on behalf of users - researching, deciding, and checking out autonomously. It turns 'bots' from a purely hostile category into one that can carry revenue.

[How do I see which AI crawlers visit my store?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/ai-crawler-detection.md)

Server or CDN logs filtered by AI user-agents give a raw view; dedicated edge detection products classify crawlers by operator and behavior, including ones that disguise themselves.