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Andy Reid to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

www.theverge.com

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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

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The rise and fall of robots.txt
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As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
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    server {

    name herebedragons.example.com; root /dev/random;

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      I wonder if Nginx would just load random into memory until the kernel OOM kills it.

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      Nice idea! Better use /dev/urandom through, as that is non blocking. See here.

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        That was really interesting. I always used urandom by practice and wondered what the difference was.

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