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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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[โ€“] circuitfarmer 70 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Most every other social contract has been violated already. If they don't ignore robots.txt, what is left to violate?? Hmm??

[โ€“] blanketswithsmallpox 46 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It's almost as if leaving things to social contracts vs regulating them is bad for the layperson... ๐Ÿค”

Nah fuck it. The market will regulate itself! Tax is theft and I don't want that raise or I'll get in a higher tax bracket and make less!

[โ€“] Jimmyeatsausage 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This can actually be an issue for poor people, not because of tax brackets but because of income-based assistance cutoffs. If $1/hr raise throws you above those cutoffs, that extra $160 could cost you $500 in food assistance, $5-$10/day for school lunch, or get you kicked out of government subsidied housing.

Yet another form of persecution that the poor actually suffer and the rich pretend to.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

God the number of people Iโ€™ve heard say this over the years is nuts.

[โ€“] SlopppyEngineer 8 points 8 months ago

And then the companies hit the "trust thermocline", customers leave them in droves and companies wonder how this could've happened.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I got it was sarcasm, but it's always good to add a /s just in case