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sjvn

AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol https://zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/ais-free-web-scraping-days-may-be-over-thanks-to-this-new-licensing-protocol/ by @sjvn

A new protocol, the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard, providea a framework for content makers to control 's access to their work.

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etchedpixels@mastodon.social

The Penguin of Evil

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@sjvn They ignore robots.txt fake agent strings and far more. No it's not going to make any difference.

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sjvn@mastodon.social

sjvn

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@etchedpixels I fear you're right, but we'll see. I've noticed that AI chatbots' sources for news answers are increasingly coming from second-tier publications.

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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

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@sjvn I agree with @etchedpixels that this is a wasted effort. Given the effort that these companies go through to bypass any sorts of controls that web sites try to put up, they certainly aren't going to pay attention to an additional file purporting to lay down conditions for use.
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sjvn@mastodon.social

sjvn

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@corbet @etchedpixels We'll see. I'm not terribly optimistic, but I have some hope..

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