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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years 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

www.theverge.com

Andy Reid@lemmy.world to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years 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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