New York Times, CNN and Australia’s ABC block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler from accessing content

Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT

News outlets including the New York Times, CNN, Reuters and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) have blocked a tool from OpenAI, limiting the company's ability to continue accessing their content.

OpenAI is behind one of the best known artificial intelligence chatbots, ChatGPT. Its web crawler - known as GPTBot - may scan webpages to help improve its AI models.