GPTBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTGPTBot is used to crawl content that may be used in training OpenAI's generative AI foundation models Operated by OpenAI.
What is GPTBot?
GPTBot is a web crawler operated by OpenAI. GPTBot is used to crawl content that may be used in training OpenAI's generative AI foundation models It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.
Identification
GPTBotWhy it crawls your site
GPTBot crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by OpenAI as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow GPTBot
Add a Disallow rule for GPTBot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block GPTBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / # Allow GPTBot full access User-agent: GPTBot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows GPTBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to OpenAI's documentation.
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