AI Crawlers & Bots

GPTBot

Definition

GPTBot is OpenAI's crawler that gathers content used to train future versions of ChatGPT and to retrieve information during browse sessions. Sites that block GPTBot in robots.txt remove themselves from ChatGPT's training and live-browse data. For AEO, GPTBot should be allowed.

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