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title: "Discussion on \"OpenAI sends three bots. The one that precedes a citation is the smallest.\" | Hashnode"
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# [OpenAI sends three bots. The one that precedes a citation is the smallest.](https://lattice.hashnode.dev/openai-sends-three-bots-the-one-that-precedes-a-citation-is-the-smallest?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

If you go looking for AI traffic in your own server logs, you probably grep for GPTBot and stop there. That is the wrong number, and it is wrong in a way that flatters you. OpenAI runs three separate

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