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In the era of driven artificial intelligence, the demand for high-quality data by large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and BERT is increasing. However, manually sorting this data from the web is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive but also often difficult to scale. This poses significant challenges for developers, especially when large amounts of data are required. Traditional web crawlers and data scraping tools have limited capabilities in extracting structured data; although they can collect webpage data, they often cannot format it in a style suitable for LLM processing.

Apple encountered website blocking challenges when launching its AI features and needs to negotiate licensing agreements with major sites. Google, leveraging its market influence, is able to pressure publishers to allow AI access to content, whereas Apple faces more website blocks on its AI crawler, Applebot-Extended. 7% of websites have chosen to block this crawler, with data showing that 294 major websites have restricted access. OpenAI also faces similar challenges, with a higher blocking rate for its crawler. Google has strengthened its market position by combining AI summaries with traditional web scraping.

Anthropic's ClaudeBot web crawler frequently accessed the iFixit website within 24 hours, allegedly violating terms of use by unauthorized content usage and consuming development resources. iFixit has added a crawl-delay extension in robots.txt to limit crawler access. This incident also affected other websites, such as Read the Docs and Freelancer.com. AI companies like OpenAI refuse crawler access through robots.txt.

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News media such as The New York Times, CNN, and Reuters have started to block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler, restricting it from accessing their content. GPTBot may scan web page content to help improve OpenAI's AI models, such as ChatGPT. The media is concerned about their content being used for AI training, but Google suggests that media content can be automatically accessed unless they choose to opt-out.

The New York Times has blocked OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot. OpenAI is unable to use The New York Times' content to train its AI models. The New York Times is considering legal action against OpenAI.

OpenAI has released guidelines for web crawlers, prompting websites to bolster their defenses. OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot may have been lurking on the internet for some time, raising concerns about its data collection practices. Website owners can disallow GPTBot's access via the robots.txt file, but not all crawlers adhere to these rules.

OpenAI has unveiled their 'official crawler' GPTBot, which is used to train AI models like GPT-4 and GPT-5. This allows website owners to restrict its crawling of content as needed, thereby improving the accuracy and safety of AI models.