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Andy Reid@lemmy.world to 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

www.theverge.com

Andy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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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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    What social contract? When sites regularly have a robots.txt that says “only Google may crawl”, and are effectively helping enforce a monolopy, that’s not a social contract I’d ever agree to.

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      I had a one-eared rabbit. He was a monolopy.

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        Sounds like a Pal name lol

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          Only if its model is a Lopunny missing an ear

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            I was thinking of a short lil bunny wearing a top hat and monocle with one ear sticking out of the center of the top hat but that works too

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      When sites regularly have a robots.txt that says “only Google may crawl”

      Is that actually true?

      If so, why would they do that?

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