With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial
For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.
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For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.
Google updated the Google-Extended crawler documentation and added a new clarification
The New York Times blocked a bot that had given the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine huge troves of websites.
OpenAI has implemented its GPTBot web crawler, utilizing the internet to further train its AI models, but this tactic has led to controversy previously.
ChatGPT's LLM has been developed by scraping vast amounts of freely available internet content, a fact that OpenAI readily acknowledges. The company is now providing instructions on...