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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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 · 1 year ago

The rise and fall of robots.txt

www.theverge.com

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

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good. robots.txt was always a bad idea
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  Like so many terrible ideas, it worked flawlessly for generations

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