You did the responsible thing with your robots.txt. You let the search bots in so they can cite you. You blocked the training bots so no model eats your content and paraphrases you to strangers without a link. You confirmed the site was crawlable a...

Here is the uncomfortable part: you will never see it happen. Someone opens ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity and types "what is a good tool for X." The model answers with two or three names and a line of praise for each. The person picks one and signs...