GPTBot
Operated by OpenAI · Trains a model
If you block it
Your content is not used to train OpenAI’s models. It does not remove you from ChatGPT search — that is a different crawler.
What OpenAI says it is for
Used to make OpenAI’s generative AI foundation models more useful and safe. Separate from ChatGPT search.
Published details
- robots.txt
- Treats robots.txt as the opt-out, without saying it respects it“The documentation does not say in so many words that GPTBot respects robots.txt; it says disallowing GPTBot keeps your content out of training.”
- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/gptbotMatch on the prefixGPTBot/rather than the whole string: operators version these, and an exact match stops working on the next release.- Verification
- Published address list: https://openai.com/gptbot.json
Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots Read .