47% of the news websites Google News shows most often block GPTBot, the crawler OpenAI uses to collect training material for ChatGPT, against 17.6% of all news publisher websites. Far fewer block the bots ChatGPT uses to fetch and cite pages when it answers.
Source: Suff Digital analysis of 178 top Google News websites and 52,326 news publisher websites · Google News results and the public HTTP Archive crawl, September 2026
Source: 47% of Top News Sites Block ChatGPT's Training Crawler vs 17.6% of All News Sites - Suff Digital