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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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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This doesn't prevent anything.

[–] hownowbrowncow@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Any credible large scale AI has to explain where they got their information from, typically through a known user agent. e.g. OpenAI was initially trained on common crawl.

Lots of other orgs use Common Crawl but not necessarily for AI.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Any credible large scale AI has to explain where they got their information from

To who?

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