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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by TravisKelce to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What social contract? When sites regularly have a robots.txt that says "only Google may crawl", and are effectively helping enforce a monolopy, that's not a social contract I'd ever agree to.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I had a one-eared rabbit. He was a monolopy.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a Pal name lol

[–] assassin_aragorn 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Only if its model is a Lopunny missing an ear

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I was thinking of a short lil bunny wearing a top hat and monocle with one ear sticking out of the center of the top hat but that works too

[–] CosmicCleric 5 points 8 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?