No reversal once blocked
News outlets in the Global North were more inclined to block AI crawlers compared with those in the Global South, per the study.
In the U.S., 79% of the top online news websites blocked OpenAI, while only 20% did so in Mexico and Poland. Meanwhile, 60% of the news sites in Germany blocked Google’s crawlers, while 7% did so in Poland and Spain.
Almost every website that blocked Google AI also blocked OpenAI (97%). Although the study does not provide a definitive explanation for this trend, it suggests that OpenAI’s release of its crawler before Google’s may have contributed to it.
Meanwhile, in most countries, some publishers blocked both sets of crawlers immediately upon their release. OpenAI launched its AI crawlers in early August last year, followed by Google in September. Once the decision to block was made, no website reversed its stance by unblocking either an OpenAI or Google AI crawler, per the study.
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