Andy Reid@lemmy.world 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-square122fedilinkarrow-up1948arrow-down115cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1933arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square122fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squarelily33@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down15·1 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-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoI had a one-eared rabbit. He was a monolopy.
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 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?