AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

Andy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 934 points –
The rise and fall of robots.txt
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Robots.txt is in theory meant to be there so that web crawlers don't waste their time traversing a website in an inefficient way. It's there to help, not hinder them. There is a social contract being broken here and in the long term it will have a negative impact on the web.

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