I mean, under the CFAA you could probably pretty easily pursue charges when explicitly deauthorizing certain agents from accessing your data. Plenty of people have been threatened and prosecuted for less.
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csm10495@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I wonder if anyone thinks robots.txt is binding or not ignored by anyone who wants.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 1 year ago
totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I mean, you could just block OpenAI’s crawlers’ IP addresses, if you wanted to
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
OpenAI will have to deal with a lot of lawsuits in the future. Robots.txt may not be legally binding but disobeying it after claiming otherwise would go a long way towards establishing intent.