ChatGPT-User

Last updated 20 hours ago.

What is ChatGPT-User?

About

ChatGPT-User is dispatched by OpenAI's ChatGPT in response to user prompts. Its AI-generated answers will usually contain a summary of the content on the website, along with a reference link.

You can set up agent analytics to see when ChatGPT-User visits your website.

Detail

Operator	OpenAI
Documentation	https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots

Type

AI Assistant

Intelligently performs tasks on behalf of a user

Expected Behavior

AI assistants generally make one-off visits to websites based on user requests, rather than crawling the web in any automatic fashion.

Insights

ChatGPT-User Visiting Your Website

Half of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

Set Up Agent Analytics

Other Websites

15%

15% of top websites are blocking ChatGPT-User

Learn How →

Probably not. AI assistants visit websites directly on behalf of human users, so blocking them will effectively block those users. This could lead to a poor user experience and possible negative sentiment about your website. Not blocking AI assistants will allow more human users to use your website as they choose.

Using Robots.txt

You can block ChatGPT-User or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. We recommend setting up agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent Token	Description
`ChatGPT-User`	Should match instances of ChatGPT-User

# robots.txt
# This should block ChatGPT-User

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt