Visits landing pages submitted as ChatGPT ads for policy review. Only those pages, and the data is not used to train foundation models.
Only matters if you run ChatGPT ads
OAI-AdsBot only visits pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT, to check they comply with OpenAI's policies. It is not a general web crawler and its data is not used to train foundation models.
If you never submit ads, blocking it changes nothing. If you do advertise, allowing it is required for those landing pages to be validated.
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot Disallow: /
Official source Operator documentation — last verified against operator docs 2026-09-12
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
"Should you block it?" below is our own interpretation, not the operator's recommendation.
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