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OpenAI Claims Robots.txt May Not Stop ChatGPT's Web-Crawling Bot

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SEOFOMO News reports that OpenAI's documentation suggests ChatGPT's Fetch Bot may not be bound by robots.txt restrictions, despite evidence of it accessing blocked sites.

OpenAI's own documentation indicates that ChatGPT's Fetch Bot may not honor robots.txt directives that would normally prevent crawler access. Per SEOFOMO News, new data shows the bot is reaching sites that have explicitly disallowed it, raising questions about whether traditional crawl-blocking methods remain effective against AI training infrastructure.
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