ChatGPT-User

What is ChatGPT-User?

About

ChatGPT-User is OpenAI's web crawler that visits websites when ChatGPT users request information. This enables ChatGPT to include links in its responses. You can see how often ChatGPT-User visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

AI assistants make one-off visits to websites based on user requests, rather than crawling the web in any automatic fashion. This allows the underlying LLM to incorporate up-to-date information outside of its training data in its answers, using a technique called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Type

AI Assistant
Intelligently fetches content on behalf of a user

Detail

Operated By OpenAI
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

14%
14% of top websites are blocking ChatGPT-User
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Country of Origin

United States
ChatGPT-User normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Assistants

Top Visited Website Categories

Finance
Computers and Electronics
Travel and Transportation
Pets and Animals
Online Communities
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Robots.txt

Should I Block ChatGPT-User?

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.

How Do I Block ChatGPT-User?

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

How Do I Block All AI Assistants?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new AI assistants automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: ChatGPT-User # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/chatgpt-user
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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