Amazon quietly blocks more of OpenAI’s ChatGPT web crawlers from accessing its site

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When economist Tyler Cowen sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a fireside chat during a four-day conference in Berkeley, California last month, the conversation eventually turned to the ChatGPT maker’s buzzy new deal with America’s biggest retailer: With OpenAI now letting Walmart shoppers buy products directly inside ChatGPT, would Amazon ever agree to a similar deal?

“Do you think Amazon will fold and join that, or are they going to fight back and try to do their own thing?” Cowen asked.

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