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skybrianyesterday at 2:56 PM1 replyview on HN

I was under the impression that they do obey robots.txt now? There are clearly a lot of dumb agents that don’t, but didn’t think it was the major AI labs.


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deauxyesterday at 2:58 PM

After 3 years of pirating and scraping the entire world by doing the above, I guess they have everything that they now need or want.

So then it's better to start obeying ROBOTS.txt as a ladder pull through a "nicely behaved" image advantage.

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