Rattlesnakes By Mail

Claim 83

OpenAI separates search and training controls into two robots.txt tokens: OAI-SearchBot for search and GPTBot for training.

entity
GPTBot
field
separate_search_and_training_tokens
value
yes
statement
OpenAI separates search and training controls into two robots.txt tokens: OAI-SearchBot for search and GPTBot for training.
evidence_url
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
evidence_quote
"a webmaster can allow OAI-SearchBot in order to appear in search results while disallowing GPTBot to indicate that crawled content should not be used for training OpenAI's generative AI foundation models."
method
vendor_doc
verified_at
2026-09-13
confidence
high
status
current
supersedes
none

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