Should You Block GPTBot? The Decision, Not the Panic
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Originally published on LetsLaunch . Somebody on a founder Slack posts a robots.txt snippet that blocks GPTBot, someone else says "wait, doesn't that get you removed from ChatGPT," and the thread ends in fifteen replies of confident, contradictory advice. It shouldn't take fifteen replies. This is…
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- 2026-09-12 17:20 · DEV Community — AI
Should You Block GPTBot? The Decision, Not the Panic