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The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down

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The number of high-ranking media websites using robots.txt to “disallow’ OpenAI ’s GPTBot dramatically increased from its August 2023 launch until that fall , then steadily (but more gradually) rose from November 2023 to April 2024 .

At its peak, the high was just over a third of the websites; it has now dropped down closer to a quarter .

Onion CEO Ben Collins : "We are not doing any business with the Plagiarism Machine " While the first rush to block OpenAI 's bots appears to have ended, it’s unclear whether this lull will last.

Gillham suspects that there may be additional spikes in blocking in the future, if publishers see it as a bargaining tactic.

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