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AI visibility glossary

GPTBot

In short

OpenAI's crawler that collects web content for model training.

Example

Requests arriving in server logs with the "GPTBot" user agent.

Where you'll see it in AILens

The AI bot access table and the training bot decision control (AGT-011).

Blocking GPTBot does not by itself keep you out of ChatGPT search; OpenAI uses a separate bot (OAI-SearchBot) for search. The choice is yours, so think about the two bots separately.

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