Will blocking GPTBot remove me from ChatGPT?

Not by itself. ChatGPT search uses OAI-SearchBot, which is a separate setting.

Does robots.txt actually stop bots?

Only the ones that choose to follow it. Use firewall rules for the rest.

OpenAI says search results can take about 24 hours to adjust after a robots.txt update.

GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot do different jobs. Learn which AI crawlers to block, which to allow, and why robots.txt alone isn't enough.

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