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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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[โ€“] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Detecting crawlers can be easier said than done ๐Ÿ™

[โ€“] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago

i mean yeah, but at a certain point you just have to accept that it's going to be crawled. The obviously negligent ones are easy to block.