training crawlers
GPTBot
Operated by OpenAI · Training crawlers
OpenAI's training crawler. It gathers public pages that may feed a future GPT model.
When GPTBot shows up in your logs
OpenAI is collecting public content that could train a later model. Robots.txt controls whether it may.
Crawlers that collect public content that may be used to train or ground models.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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