ChatGPT-User

ChatGPT-User is, alongside GPTBot (training) and OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search), one of the three central OpenAI user agents. It activates when a user shares a specific URL in ChatGPT or makes a request that triggers a live fetch.

If you want users to be able to read and summarize a page directly in ChatGPT, allow the retrieval:

• User-agent: ChatGPT-User
• Allow: /

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