MistralAI-User

What is MistralAI-User?

About

MistralAI-User is Mistral's AI assistant bot that performs web browsing and data gathering tasks for users in Le Chat, including opening web pages and retrieving information to answer user queries. You can see how often MistralAI-User visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

AI assistants make one-off visits to websites based on user requests, rather than crawling the web in any automatic fashion. This allows the underlying LLM to incorporate up-to-date information outside of its training data in its answers, using a technique called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

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Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Assistants

Top Visited Website Categories

Robots.txt

Should I Block MistralAI-User?

Probably not. AI assistants visit websites directly on behalf of human users, so blocking them will effectively block those users. This could lead to a poor user experience and possible negative sentiment about your website. Not blocking AI assistants will allow more human users to use your website as they choose.

How Do I Block MistralAI-User?

You can block MistralAI-User or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block MistralAI-User

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

References

• https://docs.mistral.ai/