GPTBot
GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler that fetches pages to improve future versions of ChatGPT and other OpenAI models.
Updated May 1, 2026
In depth
GPTBot obeys robots.txt. Blocking it removes your site from OpenAI's training corpus and can reduce ChatGPT citation frequency for your brand. Most sites should allow it; sensitive sub-paths can be blocked selectively.
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