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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, and there’s also no law against calling an unlisted phone number

Also we already had this battle with robots.txt. In the beginning, search engines wouldn’t honor it either because they wanted the competitive advantage of more info, and websites trusted it too much and tried to wall off too much info that way.

There were complaints, bad pr, lawsuits, call for a law

It’s no longer the Wild West:

  • search engines are mature and generally honor robots.txt
  • websites use rate limiting to conserve resources and user logins to fence off data there’s a reason to fence off
  • truce: neither side is as greedy
  • there is no such law nor is that reasonable
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

There's also no law against visiting an unlisted webpage? What?