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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by singpolyma3 on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:41PM (#47568200)
How?
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by oblio on Sunday March 29, 2026 @07:51PM (#47568716)
Because OpenAI built their entire business around shamelessly scraping anything that had bits on it.
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by singpolyma3 on Sunday March 29, 2026 @08:01PM (#47568797)
Maybe. But scraping isn't abuse. Seems a bit different?
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by PunchyHamster on Sunday March 29, 2026 @09:35PM (#47569452)
Given that the scraping doesn't do any rate limiting and pisses on robots.txt, yes it is abuse
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by singpolyma3 on Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:41PM (#47569823)
Is there any evidence OpenAI has been ignoring robots.txt for scraping purposes? AFAIK the main sources of that traffic are still unknown.
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by cycomanic on Monday March 30, 2026 @03:11AM (#47571332)
Quoting the OP

> These checks are part of how we protect our first-party products from abuse like bots, scraping, fraud, and other attempts to misuse the platform.

That implies that OpenAI (or at least this employee) considers scraping abuse.

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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by ludwik on Monday March 30, 2026 @03:13AM (#47571347)
The top comment categorized scraping as abuse ("abuse such as [...] scraping") - that's precisely why some accuse its author of lack of self awareness.
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