Analysis: by the end of 2023, 48% of the most popular news websites in the US, UK, and eight others blocked OpenAI’s crawler and 24% blocked Google’s crawler (Dr Richard Fletcher/Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)

Dr Richard Fletcher / Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Analysis: by the end of 2023, 48% of the most popular news websites in the US, UK, and eight others blocked OpenAI's crawler and 24% blocked Google's crawler  —  In this factsheet we describe the proportion of top news websites in ten countries that block AI (artificial intelligence) crawlers.