diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-prod.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy-prod.yml
index 5001cf6..487ed45 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy-prod.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-prod.yml
@@ -45,7 +45,10 @@ jobs:
           echo "${{ secrets.SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS }}" > ~/.ssh/known_hosts
           chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
       - name: Build with Hugo
-        run: HUGO_REMOTE_FONT_PATH=${{ secrets.REMOTE_FONT_PATH }} hugo --minify
+        run: |
+          HUGO_REMOTE_FONT_PATH=${{ secrets.REMOTE_FONT_PATH }} \
+          HUGO_DARKVISITORS=${{ secrets.DARKVISITORS_TOKEN }} \
+          hugo --minify
       - name: Insert 404 page
         run: |
           mkdir -p public/bunnycdn_errors
diff --git a/config/_default/params.toml b/config/_default/params.toml
index 9a5dc3e..e0f5d42 100644
--- a/config/_default/params.toml
+++ b/config/_default/params.toml
@@ -8,32 +8,10 @@ numberOfRelatedPosts = 5
 
 indexTitle = ".-. ..- -. - .. -- . - . .-. .-. --- .-."
 
-bad_robots = [
-  "AdsBot-Google",
-  "Amazonbot",
-  "anthropic-ai",
-  "Applebot-Extended",
-  "AwarioRssBot",
-  "AwarioSmartBot",
-  "Bytespider",
-  "CCBot",
-  "ChatGPT",
-  "ChatGPT-User",
-  "Claude-Web",
-  "ClaudeBot",
-  "cohere-ai",
-  "DataForSeoBot",
-  "Diffbot",
-  "FacebookBot",
-  "Google-Extended",
-  "GPTBot",
-  "ImagesiftBot",
-  "magpie-crawler",
-  "omgili",
-  "Omgilibot",
-  "peer39_crawler",
-  "PerplexityBot",
-  "YouBot"
+darkVisitors = [
+  "AI Assistant",
+  "AI Data Scraper",
+  "AI Search Crawler"
 ]
 
 # Comments
diff --git a/config/local/hugo.toml b/config/local/hugo.toml
index 0873821..fe992f0 100644
--- a/config/local/hugo.toml
+++ b/config/local/hugo.toml
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-baseURL = "http://localhost:1313/"
\ No newline at end of file
+baseURL = "http://localhost:1313/"
+enableRobotsTXT = false
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/preview/hugo.toml b/config/preview/hugo.toml
index f9f012b..bdba38b 100644
--- a/config/preview/hugo.toml
+++ b/config/preview/hugo.toml
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-baseURL = "https://preview.runtimeterror.dev/"
\ No newline at end of file
+baseURL = "https://preview.runtimeterror.dev/"
+enableRobotsTXT = false
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/layouts/partials/dark-visitors.html b/layouts/partials/dark-visitors.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00c234b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/partials/dark-visitors.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{{/* borrowed from 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 6c7d9c0..2a7e039 100644
--- a/layouts/robots.txt
+++ b/layouts/robots.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,5 @@ User-agent: *
 Disallow:
 
 # except for these bots which are not friends:
-{{ range .Site.Params.bad_robots }}
-User-agent: {{ . }}
-{{- end }}
-Disallow: /
+
+{{ partial "dark-visitors.html" . }}