John Voorhees :premier: on Nostr: Six days later, what started as a ‘WTF is going on?’ moment for Robb Knight, ...

Six days later, what started as a ‘WTF is going on?’ moment for Robb Knight (npub12vd…57e8), Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (npub189s…3rm4), and me has become something else entirely.

The latest from Business Insider, which reports that OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring publishers’ robots.txt files too.

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-rule-scraping-web-contect-robotstxt

See also: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/multiple-ai-companies-bypassing-web-standard-scrape-publisher-sites-licensing-2024-06-21/