Is GPTBot blocked on your site? Here's what that means for AI agents

Is GPTBot blocked on your site? How to check and fix it in 5 minutes Right now, at least a dozen AI crawlers are probably hitting your site. Some are scraping your content to train models. Others are fetching pages in real time so ChatGPT or Perplexity can answer questions about you. Most site owners have no idea which ones they're allowing and which ones they've accidentally blocked. Your robots.txt file controls all of this. And there's a good chance yours is either wide open or blocking the wrong things. Here's how to check and fix it. The bots you should know about Not all AI crawlers do the same thing. Some collect training data. Others fetch your pages live when a user asks a question. That difference matters, because you might want to block one but not the other. Training bots scrape your content to build or fine-tune AI models. Your pages get absorbed into the model's weights. You don't get a link, attribution, or traffic in return. User-agent bots fetch your pages in real time