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The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler(www.theverge.com)

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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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Treczoks@lemmy.world
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The question is: Does that crawler adhere to robot.txt policies?

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They made a flag specifically for their crawler, so they can say that they do but in the most annoying way possible.

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