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 ...

Without announcement, OpenAI recently added details about its web crawler, GPTBot, to its online documentation site. GPTBot is the name of the user agent that the company uses to retrieve webpages to ...

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said this week it’s launching a system to block bots from scraping clients’ sites or at least allow them to charge AI companies for access. These AI bots ...

Web crawlers, used by search engines like Google and Bing to scan websites and index content, are also used by AI companies to train LLMs. These models learn from the content of websites and any other ...

Since summer 2023, you can prevent the crawlers from the AI company Open AI from reading your website and making it part of the artificial intelligence ChatGPT, which can be found at ...

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 ...

OpenAI said this month it was using its own web crawler to collect training data for ChatGPT. It promised not to crawl websites deploy a decades-old web tool, robots.txt. Some of the biggest names in ...