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BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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I wonder if anyone thinks robots.txt is binding or not ignored by anyone who wants.
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.
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.
https://www.nacdl.org/Landing/ComputerFraudandAbuseAct
I mean, you could just block OpenAI's crawlers' IP addresses, if you wanted to