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