diff --git a/content/changelog.md b/content/changelog.md
index 28539f9..0e48232 100644
--- a/content/changelog.md
+++ b/content/changelog.md
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 ---
 title: "/changelog"
 date: "2024-05-26T21:19:08Z"
-lastmod: "2024-08-02T21:16:14Z"
+lastmod: "2024-08-04T22:30:43Z"
 description: "Maybe I should keep a log of all my site-related tinkering?"
 featured: false
 toc: false
 timeless: true
 categories: slashes
 ---
-*High-level list of config/layout changes to the site. The full changelog is of course [on GitHub](https://github.com/jbowdre/runtimeterror/commits/main/).*
+*Running list of config/layout changes to the site. The full changelog is of course [on GitHub](https://github.com/jbowdre/runtimeterror/commits/main/).*
 
 **2024-08-02:**
 - Display "pinned" recent track in sidebar using [MusicThread](https://musicthread.app) instead of latest scrobble
diff --git a/content/colophon.md b/content/colophon.md
index d7c8c6b..4e531a9 100644
--- a/content/colophon.md
+++ b/content/colophon.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ categories: slashes
 - uses the font face [Berkeley Mono](https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/) ([details](/using-custom-font-hugo/)), and icons from [Font Awesome](https://fontawesome.com/) and [Fork Awesome](https://forkaweso.me/).
 - performs syntax highlighting with [Torchlight](https://torchlight.dev) ([details](/spotlight-on-torchlight/)).
 - provides site search with [lunr](https://lunrjs.com/) based on an implementation detailed by [Victoria Drake](https://victoria.dev/blog/add-search-to-hugo-static-sites-with-lunr/).
-- uses [Dark Visitors](https://darkvisitors.com/docs/robots-txt)'s API to dynamically generate a [robots.txt](/robots.txt) discouraging AI scrapers with some Hugo code from [Luke Harris](https://github.com/lkhrs/hugo-dark-visitors).
+- fetches [ai.robots.txt](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt) to dynamically generate a [robots.txt](/robots.txt) discouraging AI scrapers with Hugo's [`resources.GetRemote` capability](https://gohugo.io/functions/resources/getremote/).
 - leverages [Cabin](https://withcabin.com) for [privacy-friendly](https://withcabin.com/privacy/runtimeterror.dev) analytics.
 - fetches recently-played music from [MusicThread](https://musicthread.app/).
 - displays my latest status from [omg.lol](https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/jbowdre).
diff --git a/layouts/partials/bad-robots.html b/layouts/partials/bad-robots.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2dd28e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/partials/bad-robots.html
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{{- $url := "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/main/robots.json" -}}
+{{- with resources.GetRemote $url -}}
+	{{- with .Err -}}
+		{{- errorf "%s" . -}}
+	{{- else -}}
+    {{- $robots := unmarshal .Content -}}
+    {{- range $botname, $props := $robots }}
+      {{- printf "User-agent: %s\n" $botname }}
+    {{- end }}
+    {{- printf "Disallow: /\n" }}
+    {{- printf "\n# (bad bots bundled by https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt)" }}
+	{{- end -}}
+{{- else -}}
+	{{- errorf "Unable to get remote resource %q" $url -}}
+{{- end -}}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/layouts/partials/dark-visitors.html b/layouts/partials/dark-visitors.html
deleted file mode 100644
index e7aec71..0000000
--- a/layouts/partials/dark-visitors.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-{{/* borrowed from Luke Harris @ https://github.com/lkhrs/hugo-dark-visitors */}}
-{{- $url := "https://api.darkvisitors.com/robots-txts" -}}
-{{- $api_key := getenv "HUGO_DARKVISITORS" -}}
-{{- $bearer := printf "Bearer %v" $api_key -}}
-{{- $agent_types := slice -}}
-{{- if .Site.Params.darkVisitors -}}
-	{{- range .Site.Params.darkVisitors -}}
-		{{- $agent_types = $agent_types | append . -}}
-	{{- end -}}
-{{- else -}}
-	{{- $agent_types = slice "AI Data Scraper" -}}
-{{- end -}}
-{{- $agent_types := $agent_types | jsonify -}}
-{{- $opts := dict
-	"method" "post"
-	"headers" (dict "Authorization" (slice $bearer) "Content-Type" "application/json")
-	"body" (printf `{"agent_types": %s,"disallow": "/"}` $agent_types)
--}}
-{{- with resources.GetRemote $url $opts -}}
-	{{- with .Err -}}
-		{{- errorf "%s" . -}}
-	{{- else -}}
-		{{- .Content -}}
-	{{- end -}}
-{{- else -}}
-	{{- errorf "Unable to get remote resource %q" $url -}}
-{{- end -}}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/layouts/robots.txt b/layouts/robots.txt
index 2a7e039..b5d0b09 100644
--- a/layouts/robots.txt
+++ b/layouts/robots.txt
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ Disallow:
 
 # except for these bots which are not friends:
 
-{{ partial "dark-visitors.html" . }}
+{{ partial "bad-robots.html" . }}