Andy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up11.09Karrow-down115
arrow-up11.08Karrow-down1external-linkAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comAndy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square200fedilink
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·9 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?
Is that actually true?
If so, why would they do that?