2y ago

Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI

gizmodo.com Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI

An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.

An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects.

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Why is AI scraping not respecting robots.txt? It wasn’t ok early internet days, so why is it ok now? People are complaining about being overloaded by scrapers like it’s the 90’s
- Technically they're violating CFAA if they don't respect Robots.txt.
- What's robots.txt
  
  Here's an example https://www.google.com/robots.txt
  Basically it's a file people put in their root directory of their domain to tell automated web crawlers what sections of the website and what kind of web crawlers are allowed to access their resources.
  It isn't a legally binding thing, more of a courtesy. Some sites may block traffic if they're detecting the prohibited actions, so it gives your crawlers an idea of what's okay in order to not get blocked.
  
  Got it. Thanks.
  
  It’s a plain text file that is hosted on your site that should be visible to the internet. Basically allows/disallows scraping from search engines in your site.

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