[dx034]

As a website owner, I have an incentive to provide access to the Google crawler because of the visitors they send me. They've started to show more content directly, but a fair amount of people still click through to websites.

It looks to me like ChatGPT Search hides links much more. Is there any incentive for website owners to allow access to ChatGPT?

[sebzim4500]

There's still a link, so from a purely rational perspective the small benefit you get from allowing it is bigger than the zero benefit you get from disallowing it.

The calculation would be different if you had a website large enough that excluding it would measurably make the chatgpt search service worse, which is presumably why OpenAI has been willing to pay some large players.