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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

The rise and fall of robots.txt

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As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

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I bet at least one site I’ve visited in my lifetime has enforced it

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