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Ignacio @lemmy.ml

2y ago

Disallow GPTBot to access your site

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empireOfLove @lemmy.one

2y ago

OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt.

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m-p{3} @lemmy.ca

2y ago

Should we block OpenAI from scrapping the server?

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irradiated @radiation.party

2y ago

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GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler

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"Please label all of your interesting text so we can flag it with our webcrawler to train on later."

Or don't do anything. There are plenty of crawlers out there and disallowing won't stop the unethical ones.
- Just because some people might break into my house doesn't mean I'll stop locking my doors.
  
  that doesn't lock anything, it's not a security feature.

Is there some way you could have your web server log who scrapes the site? If you disallow ChatGPT and still find that it has scraped your site would you have cause to sue? @legaleagle (or anyone else too)
- It's gotta be pretty difficult to differentiate human users from bots. If it was easy, you could prevent bots from loading the page altogether.
  
  Exactly what Google are trying to do currently. Just in the worst way possible.

I mean, you can add their user agent to the robots file but the crawler could just change their user agent or even ignore the robots file if the server isn't filtering requests by user agent

I'm going to do that tomorrow for my blog site. There's no way I am letting ChatGPT crawl my shit.
- Narrator: ChatGPT crawled it anyway.

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