Multiple news organizations have blocked OpenAI LP from crawling their websites, according to a new report. The Guardian reported today that The New York Times, CNN, Reuters and the Chicago Tribune ...

ChatGPT users have the option to scrap the web crawler by adding a “disallow” command to a standard file on the server. Artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has launched “GPTBot” — its new web crawling ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

MediaCloud, a Berkman Center project, and StopBadware, a former Berkman Center project that has spun off as an independent organization, have each built systems to crawl websites and save the results ...

A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. This process is called Web crawling or ...

In the olden days of the WWW you could just put a robots.txt file in the root of your website and crawling bots from search engines and kin would (generally) respect the rules in it. These days, ...