# Has anyone seen the OpenAI web crawler GPTBot visit their site?

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [August 8, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-seen-the-openai-web-crawler-gptbot-visit-their-site/274370 "2023-08-08T16:07:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-seen-the-openai-web-crawler-gptbot-visit-their-site/274370/13 "2025-06-23T19:59:24Z")

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OpenAI doesn’t follow delay, AFAIK. That was reason I banned theirs schooling bot; it was way too diligent (well, there was anothe reasons too, same as why I ban every SEO/marketing bot in sight: I don’t pay someone elses business)

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