Should I Block GPTBot?
Replaced in November 2026: this answer now sits in a longer, current page on the same question. Linked here.
By Andrej Ruckij · · 1 min read
Should I Block GPTBot?
This article has been replaced. The answer is the same: blocking GPTBot opts you out of training and leaves you in ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Our page on OpenAI’s crawlers now carries it, with all four OpenAI bots and the robots.txt rules each follows.
Read the current version: OpenAI’s crawlers: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User (and OAI-AdsBot)