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Julian Neagu · 2026-08-06T10:30:29.990Z

Key Highlights: OpenAI runs two separate bots - GPTBot for training and OAI-SearchBot for citations. Blocking training bots does NOT remove you from AI search results. Most robots.txt files block the

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