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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
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[–] lily33@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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?