RSS BotMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish • 2 months agoAI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txtarstechnica.commessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkAI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txtarstechnica.comRSS BotMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square3fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-square@TootSweet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoI imagine AI scrapers fetching the robots.txt, reading, ingesting, reflecting on, considering, rereading, and finally throwing it straight in the trash before scraping all your data. Because fuck you, that’s why.
I imagine AI scrapers fetching the robots.txt, reading, ingesting, reflecting on, considering, rereading, and finally throwing it straight in the trash before scraping all your data. Because fuck you, that’s why.