ChatGPT’s crawler GPTBot, which spiders the internet to capture information and turn it into knowledge, is the most-blocked bot on the internet, according to Cloudflare’s 2025 year in review. Meanwhile its biggest rival, Google, is the No. 1 most-allowed crawler. And perhaps even more interestingly, while ChatGPT is the most-blocked bot, it’s actually Anthropic’s Claude AI engine that is the least reciprocally beneficial service for website owners.
Every year internet infrastructure company Cloudflare publishes an analysis of what’s happening on the internet.
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tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“…to capture information and turn it into knowledge.” Could this author literally gargle Altmans gross fucking nuts in their throat any harder?
tonytins@pawb.social 2 days ago
Sigh… It’s Forbes. It’s what they’re citing that I find useful and something to chuckle at.
BCOVertigo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I might make another attempt to read this later but I stopped at that exact spot with an irrepressible urge to call bullshit.
Here’s the Cloudflare link they’re pulling from in case people want to go straight to the source radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025
Hegar@fedia.io 2 days ago
It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn't make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.
Information already is knowledge, and that's not what gpt does.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Information is contextualized data. Knowledge is contextualized information. Wisdom is contextualized knowledge.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Yeah the sentence should really be rewritten as “to capture knowledge already accessible on the internet, and repackage it into an utterly pointless hallucinating RAM guzzling money pit”
mPony@kbin.earth 2 days ago
Holy shit, that's actually a real quote from the article(!) That's just shameful writing.