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It is good to make a proper distinction, in the ChatGPT context, between crawlers and agents. The crawlers go for the content to build a new model, the agents s
by robhoeijmakers 5mo ago
It is good to make a proper distinction, in the ChatGPT context, between crawlers and agents. The crawlers go for the content to build a new model, the agents serve content to users. The last one can be very useful.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoThey use different user-agent strings. The crawlers obfuscate themselves and use residential proxies. The agents call themselves ChatGPT-User. Of course Cloudflare wants OpenAI to pay them for not blocking ChatGPT-User by default.
- faangguyindia 5mo agoIt's true, crawlers used for AI training don't say they are crawlers at all.