OpenAI sends three bots. The one that precedes a citation is the smallest.
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If you go looking for AI traffic in your own server logs, you probably grep for GPTBot and stop there. That is the wrong number, and it is wrong in a way that flatters you. OpenAI runs three separate agents. They mean three different things. GPTBot is the training crawler. It feeds model weights. I…
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- 2026-09-01 08:17 · DEV Community — AI
OpenAI sends three bots. The one that precedes a citation is the smallest.