What is ChatGPT-User?
ChatGPT-User is the agent that fetches a page in real time when a user's question requires it, as opposed to crawling in advance.
It is triggered by a person, not a schedule. When someone asks ChatGPT about a specific page or the assistant decides it needs current content, this agent retrieves it during the conversation. That makes blocking it different in kind from blocking a background crawler: you are declining to be readable at the moment someone is actively asking.
In our index it is disallowed on 2,074 of 33,670 readable domains. It counts as a citation-affecting block rather than a training one, and it is often caught unintentionally by a blanket rule aimed at OpenAI generally.
Related
- OAI-SearchBotOAI-SearchBot is the crawler OpenAI uses to build the index ChatGPT cites from. It is not the training crawler, and blocking it is a different decision from blocking GPTBot.
- GPTBotGPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler. It reads pages to train and ground OpenAI's models, including ChatGPT.
- AI crawlerAn AI crawler is a bot operated by an AI company to fetch web pages for training, indexing, or answering a live question.
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