Andy Reid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1860arrow-down114cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1846arrow-down1external-linkAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comAndy Reid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square101fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-square@lily33@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish18•1 year agoWhat 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.
minus-square@Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish15•1 year agoI had a one-eared rabbit. He was a monolopy.
minus-squareCosmic ClericlinkfedilinkEnglish3•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?
What social contract? When sites regularly have a
robots.txtthat says “only Google may crawl”, and are effectively helping enforce a monolopy, that’s not a social contract I’d ever agree to.I had a one-eared rabbit. He was a monolopy.
Is that actually true?
If so, why would they do that?