• ExpensiveConstant@kbin.social
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    I mean, you can add their user agent to the robots file but the crawler could just change their user agent or even ignore the robots file if the server isn’t filtering requests by user agent

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Or don’t do anything. There are plenty of crawlers out there and disallowing won’t stop the unethical ones.

  • WasPentalive@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Is there some way you could have your web server log who scrapes the site? If you disallow ChatGPT and still find that it has scraped your site would you have cause to sue? @legaleagle (or anyone else too)

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      1 year ago

      It’s gotta be pretty difficult to differentiate human users from bots. If it was easy, you could prevent bots from loading the page altogether.

  • Voyajer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “Please label all of your interesting text so we can flag it with our webcrawler to train on later.”