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# GPTBot

OpenAI's web crawler that indexes publicly available web content for use in training and powering ChatGPT's responses. GPTBot respects robots.txt directives....

OpenAI's web crawler that indexes publicly available web content for use in training and powering ChatGPT's responses. GPTBot respects robots.txt directives. Sites that permit GPTBot crawling have the potential to be cited by ChatGPT.

**Example:** A robots.txt entry 'User-agent: GPTBot\\nAllow: /' permits OpenAI's crawler to index the site's content, making it eligible for citation in ChatGPT responses.


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