ChatGPT’s Browser Bot Seems to Avoid New York Times Links Like a Rat Who Got Electrocuted

AI-powered browsers like ChatGPT Atlas aren’t just browsers with little ChatGPT picture-in-picture boxes off to the side answering questions. They also have “agentic capabilities,” meaning they can theoretically carry out tasks like buying airline tickets and making hotel reservations (Atlas hasn’t exactly gotten rave reviews as a travel agent). But what happens when the little web-crawling bot that does these tasks senses danger?

The danger we’re talking about is not to the user, but…