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BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content (deadline.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content::ChatGPT will be blocked by the BBC from scraping content in a move to protect copyrighted material.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder if anyone thinks robots.txt is binding or not ignored by anyone who wants.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

OpenAI will have to deal with a lot of lawsuits in the future. Robots.txt may not be legally binding but disobeying it after claiming otherwise would go a long way towards establishing intent.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I mean, under the CFAA you could probably pretty easily pursue charges when explicitly deauthorizing certain agents from accessing your data. Plenty of people have been threatened and prosecuted for less.

https://www.nacdl.org/Landing/ComputerFraudandAbuseAct

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I mean, you could just block OpenAI's crawlers' IP addresses, if you wanted to