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Should we block OpenAI from scrapping the server? (platform.openai.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Right now, robots.txt on lemmy.ca is configured this way

User-Agent: *
  Disallow: /login
  Disallow: /login_reset
  Disallow: /settings
  Disallow: /create_community
  Disallow: /create_post
  Disallow: /create_private_message
  Disallow: /inbox
  Disallow: /setup
  Disallow: /admin
  Disallow: /password_change
  Disallow: /search/
  Disallow: /modlog

Would it be a good idea privacy-wise to deny GPTBot from scrapping content from the server?

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. Ban them.

if ($http_user_agent = "GPTBot") {
  return 403;
}

[–] jman269 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably want == instead else we will all be forbidden

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would have thought so too, but == failed the syntax check

2023/08/07 15:36:59 [emerg] 2315181#2315181: unexpected "==" in condition in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/lemmy.ca.conf:50

You actually want ~ though because GPTBot is just in the user agent, it's not the full string.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Strangely, = works the same as == with nginx. It's a very strange config format...

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html#if

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Look at me! I'm the GPTBot now!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for empowering my lazyness =)