The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler
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The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler
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The NYT doesn’t want OpenAI training AI models with its articles.

The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler::The New York Times has officially blocked GPTBot, OpenAI’s web crawler. The outlet’s robot.txt page specifically disallows GPTBot, preventing OpenAI from scraping content from its website to train AI models.

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as if a text file is going to stop them

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NYT also uses a third party bot identification and mitigation service.

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