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Should lemmy.ml block chatgpt scraping in robots.txt? (lemmy.ml)
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Some context about this here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/

the robots.txt would be updated with this entry

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Obviously this is meaningless against non-openai scrapers or anyone who just doesn't give a shit.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Robots.txt is more of an honor system. If they respect , they won't do that trick.