AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt - eviltoast
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.
  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

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

    Is that actually true?

    If so, why would they do that?