• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    typically adhere. but they don’t have to follow it.

    poorly designed AI bots

    Is it a poor design if its explicitly a design choice to ignore it entirely to scrape as much data as possible? Id argue its more AI bots designed to scrape everything regardless of robots.txt. That’s the intention. Asshole design vs poor design.