One day I set up the world's lamest content farm. You can see it here: https://www.web.sp.am/ While humans tend not to find its six billion pages very interesting, some web spiders are entranced. In the past week or so, Amazon's amazonbot has visited it 6 million times, and OpenAI's gptbot 2.6 million. (If you were wondering what they use to train ChatGPT, now you know.) I don't care that googlebot comes by every 5 or 10 minutes, but gptbot is every few seconds and amazon as fast as the server will respond. They both come from predictable IPs so I can set packet filters but they're still hammering pretty hard. Each has a URL in the user agent string, Amazon's page has an address to write to but OpenAI's doesn't. I wrote to the Amazon address, no response. If anyone has contacts at either I would appreciate it. A few years ago the bingbot got trapped but fortunately I knew someone at Microsoft who could pass the word. He reported back that while he could not go into detail, there was a great deal of animated conversation at the other end of the hall, and shortly after that it stopped. R's, John