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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
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[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

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.