Andy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up11.07Kcross-posted to: technology@midwest.socialtechnology@beehaw.orgwolnyinternet@szmer.infotechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up11.07Kexternal-linkAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comAndy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square187fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@midwest.socialtechnology@beehaw.orgwolnyinternet@szmer.infotechnology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 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?
Is that actually true?
If so, why would they do that?