[blibble]

blocked it on every single site I manage

there is zero benefit to me in allowing OpenAI to absorb my content

it is a parasite, plain and simple (as is GitHub Copilot)

and I'll be hooking in the procedurally generated garbage pages for it soon!

[tedunangst]

How do you assess which robots benefit you?

[amelius]

What if it becomes the next Google? Are you really sure you want to be removed from their index?

[vouaobrasil]

Not the OP, but I already blocked it with my robots.txt. I am 100% sure I want to be removed from their index, even if they become "the next Google". I would rather have my website fade away into obscurity than increase the usefulness of their AI or any other AI model.

[stubish]

If something happens, then you can do something about it.

In this particular case, if enough people block ChatGPT scraping then it cannot become the next google. Most notably, I imagine all commercial news organizations will block it because they need people to visit their actual website to pay for putting news up on their website. And it will remain that way until it can be demonstrated that ChatGPT drives more traffic to a website than it redirects traffic away from a website. The Microsoft chat in Edge is much closer to that in the way its summaries include clickable quotes from articles.

[OJFord]

As it is, as GP says there would be 'zero benefit' to being included in that new Google, to GP as content author.

[anotherhue]

You are promoting FOMO.