Claim 19
ChatGPT-User fetches pages in response to user actions in ChatGPT, and OpenAI states that robots.txt rules may not apply to ChatGPT-User fetches.
- entity
- ChatGPT-User
- field
- respects_robots_txt
- value
partial- statement
- ChatGPT-User fetches pages in response to user actions in ChatGPT, and OpenAI states that robots.txt rules may not apply to ChatGPT-User fetches.
- evidence_url
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- evidence_quote
- "ChatGPT-User is not used for crawling the web in an automatic fashion. Because these actions are initiated by a user, robots.txt rules may not apply."
- method
- vendor_doc
- verified_at
- 2026-09-13
- confidence
- high
- status
- current
- supersedes
- none
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