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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

www.theverge.com

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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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There’s also no law against visiting an unlisted webpage? What?

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