OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence venture, recently found itself in hot water with The New York Times after deploying web crawler bots to scrape the news outlet’s website for public domain documents. The Times accused OpenAI of violating its terms of service, leading the AI firm to remove and disable its bots. In a… Continue reading The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler
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Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge
In a surprising development, major web sites have been scrambling to block the ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerged on how to manipulate the chatbot to access and mine data. The discovery of potential abuses of the ChatGPT system has raised alarm bells with webmasters across the globe. ChatGPT is a natural language processing chatbot… Continue reading Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge
Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler
In the digital world that we live in today, it’s no surprise that web crawlers are key pieces of technology in many different online processes. OpenAI has recently released a web crawler which further enhances the capabilities of those processes. However, this technology isn’t always welcome, which is why OpenAI also offers a way to… Continue reading Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler