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Andy Reid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

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 Reid 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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    It’s up there with Do-Not-Track.

    Completely pointless because it’s not enforced

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      Do-Not-Track, AKA, “I’ve made my browser fingerprint more unique for you, please sell my data”

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      I bet at least one site I’ve visited in my lifetime has enforced it

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