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ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain (www.forbes.com)
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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.

Archive: http://archive.today/xvW1Q

Cite: https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025

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[–] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 105 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

"...to capture information and turn it into knowledge." Could this author literally gargle Altman's balls in their throat any harder?

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sigh... It's Forbes. It's what they're citing that I find useful and something to chuckle at.

[–] BCOVertigo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Added it to the post.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Information is contextualized data. Knowledge is contextualized information. Wisdom is contextualized knowledge.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

And tomato does not belong in a fruit salad

[–] mPony@kbin.earth 6 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit, that's actually a real quote from the article(!) That's just shameful writing.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks 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"