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Prevent Big Tech Scraping Content for Machine Learning via Robots Spec (noml.info)
submitted 1 year ago by hownowbrowncow@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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tldr- Using the robots meta element or HTTP header to say that content of this page should not be used for machine learning, in case some actors make their search UA indistinguishable from their machine learning efforts.

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[–] hownowbrowncow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

solve anything.

As I say, honourable UAs will honour robots.txt and its protocol, this proposal is an extension of that.

Google have been proposing similar. Perhaps presumably for different reasons: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/public_comment_thought_starters_oct23.pdf

There is no accountability.

On small scales perhaps not, but as said this has always been the case with scraping.

Unless some law is enacted,

robots.txt protocols has never been law but has been honoured so it's worth hanging on to. It's still the defintion of 'good bots' vs 'bad bots' on one level and that's about as good as site owners have vs whack-a-mole with UA-IP variations.