• @LaterRedditor
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    33 months ago

    What are our rights with posts on lemmy? Can AI companies just scrape the data?

    • Veraxus
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      233 months ago

      If it is publicly accessible, then yes, they scrape the data.

      This is literally how search engines have worked since damn near the inception of the internet.

        • @SacrificedBeans
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          123 months ago

          Robots.txt is a compliance standard afaik, more like an advisory guide. It cannot enforce bans on scrapers, it sets some polite boundaries for the website.

        • @kaffiene
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          43 months ago

          There was, and still is