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Andy ReidtoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·8 months ago

cross-posted to:
technology@beehaw.org

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

(www.theverge.com)

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

(www.theverge.com)

Andy ReidtoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·8 months ago

cross-posted to:
technology@beehaw.org

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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God the number of people I’ve heard say this over the years is nuts.