I Have Blocked OpenAI
Please see the disclaimer. Assumed Audience: Anyone with any opinion about “AI,” especially LLM’s. Discuss on Hacker News. Epistemic Status: Satisfied. So OpenAI recently revealed info about its spider. That information included its bot name (GPTBot) and its user agent string. But even more importantly, they revealed the IP address blocks that they would use. So I blocked them all. I also blocked their spider with robots.txt and my server; they’ve already added IP blocks, and this is a good backup....