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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by TravisKelce@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that throws a monkey wrench into the idea. That's a shame, because "either respect robots.txt or you're denied access to a lot of websites!" is appealing.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community -4 points 9 months ago

That's when Google's browser DRM thing starts sounding like a good idea 😭