Is My Website Used by AI?
“Used by AI” can mean several very different things: crawled by an automated system, retrieved for a live answer, summarized, cited, indexed, evaluated, or included in a model-development pipeline. GoGuides helps separate observable evidence from assumptions by showing its own web observations, provenance history, verification context, and requests to GoGuides endpoints associated with your domain.
Can I Check If My Website Is Visible to AI?
You can check what GoGuides currently knows about your domain. The report shows available GoGuides observations, freshness, verification context, machine-readable state, and observed requests by named AI/search crawlers to GoGuides data associated with the domain. These observations do not prove that an outside AI system visited your website, cited it, trained on it, or relied on it.
Check What GoGuides Has Observed About Your Site
Enter your domain below to inspect available GoGuides web-state observations, provenance history, verification context, machine-readable fingerprints, and requests to GoGuides endpoints associated with the domain.
This is not a generic SEO score and it is not a claim about how an outside AI provider treats your site. It is a live lookup of information GoGuides has independently observed or recorded about the domain.
What Does “Used by AI” Actually Mean?
The phrase is often treated as if it describes one event, but it can refer to several different technical processes. Evidence for one type of use does not automatically prove another.
Crawled or fetched
An automated system requested a page, file, image, robots.txt entry, sitemap, public profile, or machine-readable endpoint.
Indexed or stored for retrieval
A system may process or store information so it can locate the source later. A crawl request alone does not prove that indexing occurred.
Retrieved for a live answer
An AI search or answer system may fetch current information when responding to a user. This is different from model training.
Quoted, cited, or summarized
Your content may appear as a citation, link, quotation, summary, or supporting source inside an AI-generated response.
Used for model development
Content may be included in a training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or safety dataset. This usually cannot be proven from an ordinary crawler visit.
What This GoGuides Evidence Report Checks
The report checks whether GoGuides has an observed record for the domain, whether named AI/search crawlers have requested GoGuides data associated with it, whether ownership verification is present, whether a fingerprint exists, and when GoGuides last observed the domain.
A missing GoGuides record or signal simply means that information is not currently available in this report. It does not mean the domain is untrusted or invisible to outside AI systems.
Run a Live GoGuides Domain Check
Enter your domain below. GoGuides will return a live report based on its available observations, provenance data, verification context, machine-readable state, and observed requests to GoGuides endpoints associated with the domain.
What Evidence Can Show That AI Used Your Website?
Different evidence supports different conclusions. The strongest approach is to identify exactly what the evidence proves—and avoid claiming more than it can support.
Can I Prove My Content Was Used to Train an AI Model?
Usually, not from ordinary website logs alone. A crawler request proves that a resource was requested. It does not reveal whether the content was discarded, indexed temporarily, used for live retrieval, included in an evaluation set, or added to a model-training dataset.
Stronger evidence might include a provider disclosure, a documented dataset entry, a licensing record, an authenticated data export, or a response that contains distinctive protected material with reliable source attribution. Even then, the evidence must be interpreted carefully.
The honest answer matters
GoGuides can show observable activity and public web evidence. It does not label a crawler hit as “AI training” because that conclusion would go beyond what the request proves.
How to Investigate Whether AI Systems Are Using Your Site
No single test answers every version of the question. A useful investigation combines technical records, public AI results, policy settings, and repeated observations.
Review server-side requests
Look for known AI crawlers, search agents, repeated fetches, unusual endpoint activity, and requests that browser analytics may not record.
Verify crawler identity
Do not trust a user-agent name alone. Compare network ownership, DNS verification, provider ranges, timing, and crawl behavior.
Search AI answers for citations
Test specific questions your site answers and record whether AI systems quote, link to, summarize, or attribute your content.
Compare distinctive text
Search for unique phrases, original definitions, unusual examples, proprietary wording, or other content that can help distinguish your source.
Check GoGuides record freshness
Determine whether the domain is known, recently observed, verified, machine-readable, and connected to repeated automated activity.
Preserve dated evidence
Keep server logs, screenshots, response URLs, timestamps, policy changes, content revisions, and provider communications.
What Website Owners Can Control
Publishers cannot control every outside AI decision, but they can make deliberate choices about access, provenance, licensing, verification, and monitoring.
Crawler access
Use robots.txt and supported provider controls to communicate which compliant crawlers may access specific resources.
Public licensing and terms
State how content may be copied, licensed, summarized, republished, or used by automated systems.
Source provenance
Publish clear authorship, ownership, canonical URLs, dates, organization identity, and machine-readable source information.
Domain verification
Record proof-of-control context inside GoGuides and associate that context with the public domain record.
Machine-readable evidence
Make important public status, verification, freshness, and provenance information easy for automated systems to interpret.
Ongoing monitoring
Track changes over time instead of treating one crawler hit or one missing citation as a final answer.
A Practical Interpretation of Your GoGuides Result
A GoGuides result should be read as evidence about what GoGuides has observed and recorded—not as proof of a direct visit to your website, inclusion in a training dataset, citation in an answer, or a private decision made by an outside AI provider.
How Modern AI Systems Interact With Your Domain
AI usage is not one single thing. A site may be crawled, retrieved, summarized, cited, evaluated, or used in other ways by different systems. GoGuides reports the evidence it can directly observe and keeps those observations separate from conclusions the evidence cannot support.
1. Live AI Answer Sourcing
AI answer engines and search assistants may fetch fresh web content to ground responses. A crawler request alone does not prove that a page was used in an answer.
2. Automated Bot Checks
Crawlers and agents may request GoGuides records, history pages, favicon data, or machine-readable endpoints. GoGuides records observable requests without claiming why the outside system made them.
3. GoGuides Evidence Evaluation
GoGuides maintains independent web observations, AI Rank, provenance history, verification context, fingerprints, and machine-readable Web State records where available.
Want to see the crawler side of the story? Run a bot-focused report to check whether automated systems are requesting data connected to your domain.
Related GoGuides Evidence & Crawler Utilities
These GoGuides utilities expose different parts of the web intelligence system: crawler observations, Bot Radar activity, robots.txt context, Verified Text, provenance, and Live Index submission.
AI Website Usage FAQ
Can GoGuides prove my content was used to train an AI model?
No. GoGuides can show its own observations and requests by named automated systems to GoGuides resources, but those observations do not prove training usage.
What does “used by AI” mean here?
The phrase can describe crawling, indexing, live retrieval, citation, summarization, evaluation, or model development. The GoGuides report only claims the forms of activity for which GoGuides has observable evidence.
Why does verification matter?
Verification confirms domain control within GoGuides. It is separate from AI Rank and does not prove that an outside AI system trusts, ranks, cites, or uses the domain.
What should I do if GoGuides data is incomplete?
Review the available GoGuides record first. Missing fields should remain unknown until GoGuides has evidence it can support; they should not be treated as proof of outside-system visibility or use.