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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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[-] bappity@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

as if a text file is going to stop them

[-] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

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