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OpenAI currently says OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot robots controls are independent, so a site can allow search crawling while disallowing potential foundation-model training use.
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Sources
- Overview of OpenAI Crawlers
OpenAI · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18
“Each setting is independent of the others” — Opening paragraph and GPTBot row of 'Overview of OpenAI Crawlers'
- Tracking OpenAI - ChatGPT Bots - A Fresh Guide for Webmasters, Site Owners, and SEO's
Search Engine World · retrieved 2026-08-18
“You can allow OAI-SearchBot and still disallow GPTBot” — 'Key point' section of the guide
- OAI-SearchBot vs GPTBot: Training vs Search Crawls
Presenc AI · retrieved 2026-08-18
“Search only (no training) | Disallow | Allow | Content excluded from training but can appear in ChatGPT Search citations” — lines 83-91
Related claims
- DERIVED_FROMOpenAI said SearchGPT search behavior was separate from training its generative foundation models.Under evaluation
Release: seo-geo-product-v0.3 · Phase Two freeze: P2-CORE300-FINAL-v1.0 · Generated: 2026-08-23T08:01:40Z