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

Recently, Artificial Intelligence seems to be taking things a bit too far: OpenAI's web crawler is just the latest in a long list of tools used disproportionately by the company. A crawler, to be clear, is software that analyzes content on a network in a methodical and automated way, usually on behalf of a search engine.

GPTBot, the software in question, was recently blocked by famous news outlets, such as the New York Times and CNN, following some concern regarding the crawler's intentions-it appears, in fact, that it scans web pages to help improve its AI models.

To protect the copyright of their content, it is imperative that sites dedicated to information, content production and creativity block access to crawlers such as GPTBot.

"Since intellectual property is the lifeblood of our business, it is imperative to protect the copyright of our content."