Andy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up11.09Karrow-down115cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.zip
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 · 6 months agomessage-square200fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareBreakDecks@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 months agorobots.txt is a 30 year old standard. If we can write common sense laws around things like email and VoIP, we can do it for web standards too.
robots.txt is a 30 year old standard. If we can write common sense laws around things like email and VoIP, we can do it for web standards too.