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OAI-AdsBot
Operated by OpenAI · Other AI bots
OpenAI's crawler for ad and landing-page fetches, kept separate from its search and answer bots.
When OAI-AdsBot shows up in your logs
OpenAI pulled your page for an ads or landing-page purpose, not to answer a live question.
AI-related bot traffic that does not fit the categories above.
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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