AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt
AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt
As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

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lily33 @lemm.ee 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.34 18 ReplyImgonnatrythis @sh.itjust.works I had a one-eared rabbit. He was a monolopy.
16 0 ReplyAshelyn @lemmy.blahaj.zone Sounds like a Pal name lol
1 3 Replyassassin_aragorn @lemmy.world Only if its model is a Lopunny missing an ear
2 0 ReplyAshelyn @lemmy.blahaj.zone 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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Cosmic Cleric @lemmy.world
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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