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Sites that block AI training crawlers mostly ignore the answer time bots


We read the robots.txt of the top 10,000 sites. 38% of the GPTBot rules we could date were written in a single quarter of 2023 — right after GPTBot launched and the Times sued. Then every AI company quietly added a second bot, the one that answers questions in real time, and almost nobody wrote a rule for it.

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