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News outlets block OpenAI training bot from accessing stories

By Christopher Hutton
Published August 25, 2023 2:17pm ET
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News outlets block OpenAI training bot from accessing stories
Multiple news outlets have barred the bot used to “crawl” and scan the internet for ChatGPT’s training material from accessing their content, a gesture that could severely limit OpenAI’s training. The New York Times was one of the first news outlets to block GPTBot, a “web crawler” designed to gather content from various websites for […]

Multiple news outlets have barred the bot used to “crawl” and scan the internet for ChatGPT’s training material from accessing their content, a gesture that could severely limit OpenAI’s training.

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