What is ChatGPT-User?
ChatGPT-User is OpenAI's on-demand AI fetcher. Fetches your page live when a ChatGPT user asks about you in a conversation.
What does ChatGPT-User do with your content?
Fetches your page live when a ChatGPT user asks about you in a conversation. Like most AI crawlers, ChatGPT-User reads your pages as plain HTML — it does not run JavaScript — so content that only appears after scripts execute is invisible to it.
Should you block ChatGPT-User?
Blocking ChatGPT-User makes your business invisible to OpenAI's AI when customers ask it for recommendations. If you want to be found, allow it; block it only if you have a specific reason to keep OpenAI's AI away from your content.
How do you allow or block ChatGPT-User in robots.txt?
Add one of these snippets to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. The first explicitly allows ChatGPT-User everywhere; the second blocks it completely.
# Allow ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
# Block ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /Is robots.txt enough?
Not always. CDNs and firewalls (Cloudflare in particular) can block crawlers at the network level regardless of what robots.txt says — Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default for many accounts. If you want ChatGPT-User to reach your site, check your CDN's bot settings too. SeeGeo's free audit checks both.
Frequently asked questions
What is ChatGPT-User?
ChatGPT-User is OpenAI's on-demand AI fetcher. Fetches your page live when a ChatGPT user asks about you in a conversation.
Should I block ChatGPT-User?
Blocking ChatGPT-User makes your business invisible to OpenAI's AI when customers ask it for recommendations. If you want to be found, allow it; block it only if you have a specific reason to keep OpenAI's AI away from your content..
Does ChatGPT-User run JavaScript?
No. ChatGPT-User, like most AI crawlers, reads raw HTML without executing JavaScript. If your content only renders client-side, it is effectively invisible to it.