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Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)

submitted 2 years ago by L4s to c/technology

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An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Here's an example https://www.google.com/robots.txt

Basically it's a file people put in their root directory of their domain to tell automated web crawlers what sections of the website and what kind of web crawlers are allowed to access their resources.

It isn't a legally binding thing, more of a courtesy. Some sites may block traffic if they're detecting the prohibited actions, so it gives your crawlers an idea of what's okay in order to not get blocked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Got it. Thanks.