GPTBot is coming, should you embrace it?

As stated in the document of OpenAI, they have an official web crawler bot named GPTBot, or Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/gptbot) as full User-Agent string.

GPTBot respects the _robots.txt _protocol, which means you can either allow or disallow GPTBot to crawl your data. The question is here, either allow or disallow GPTBot, which one should you choose?

From the document of OpenAI, the purpose of GPTBot is

Allowing GPTBot to access your site can help AI models become more accurate and improve their general capabilities and safety.

Basically, OpenAI will use the data crawled by GPTBot to train, test, and evaluate their LLM models, like GPT5, etc. Allowing GPTBot to crawl your sites means allowing OpenAI to use your content as their training sets. Let’s discuss how this shall benefit you or not case by case.
If your contents are paywall protected, it won’t be a good idea to allow GPTBot to crawl your full content since you probably don’t want to ChatGPT to substitute your sites. If you are able to adjust content exposed to the bots, maybe a summary of your content would be proper.
If your content is for marketing, the answer to the bot is surely yes. And which is better, you actually need not do anything since for robots.txt the default behavior is allowing the bots to crawl.
At last, one more tip for content creators, to verify how the LLMs perceive your content, you can use the following prompt to ask ChatGPT, Bard, or Claude:

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