News sites blocking OpenAI crawlers worldwide 2023, by news outlet type

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Amy Watson,
Apr 26, 2024
By the end of 2023, 57 percent of the top most used news websites of legacy print publications worldwide were blocking OpenAI's crawlers. The figure was lower for digital-born outlets at 31 percent. Results also varied by country, with some countries quicker and stricter in terms of blocking AI crawlers than others.

Share of top news websites blocking OpenAI's crawlers worldwide as of the end of 2023, by type of news outlet

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February 2024

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Worldwide

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2023

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1,000 respondents

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based on analysis of robots.txt files from the 15 most used online news sites in each country

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Countries included in the study: United States, Germany, India, Norway, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Brazil, United Kingdom, and Denmark.

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