AI Bot QA Reference

What is GPTBot?

Quick Summary

GPTBot is OpenAI's background web crawler used to discover and index public web pages for training data.

Detailed Explanation

GPTBot is OpenAI's background indexer. It parses public HTML documents and text blocks to expand model training sets (like GPT-4 and subsequent models). GPTBot follows standard robots.txt directives and ignores pages containing noindex meta configurations.

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