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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Afaik the OpenAI bot may choose to ignore it? At least that's what another user claimed it does.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 12 points 10 months ago

Robots.txt has been always ignored by some bots, it's just a guideline originally meant to prevent excessive bandwidth usage by search indexing bots and is entirely voluntary.

Archive.org bot for example has completely ignored it since 2017.