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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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[–] lily33@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 8 months ago

Sounds like a Pal name lol

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 8 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?