Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July

• grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s hardly anything. Facebook has a bot accessing my server’s robots.txt multiple times a second. (My robots.txt used to say “Facebook bot go away” but now I just respond 404 to any requests from the Facebook bot. Pretend I said that all technical and stuff, it’s 2 am and I ought to go to sleep.)

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  • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s what I’m sayin! I make more than 12.5 requests an hour to lemmy and I’m a human I’m pretty sure

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    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wonder if I can get Facebook to give me some of that sweet, sweet cash for the inconvenience of telling them to bugger off…

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some legitimate users probably submit more requests than that

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