this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
39 points (95.3% liked)

lemmy.ml meta

1406 readers
1 users here now

Anything about the lemmy.ml instance and its moderation.

For discussion about the Lemmy software project, go to !lemmy@lemmy.ml.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
nutomic@lemmy.ml
39
Should lemmy.ml block chatgpt scraping in robots.txt? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml to c/meta@lemmy.ml
14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Some context about this here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/

the robots.txt would be updated with this entry

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Obviously this is meaningless against non-openai scrapers or anyone who just doesn't give a shit.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could be wrong but wouldn't people be able to file class action lawsuits against these companies? because they are literally copying content without obtaining any prior explicit user consent, also I'm pretty sure Europeans have an upper hand with data privacy protection from GDPR (European data being extracted/harvested and transferred to US servers)

I could be wrong though