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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago

Well that didn't take long.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Welp this was pretty obvious path and expected. They are better than twitter but still not a good alternative.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Like the bots aren't already scraping every website all the time anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Headline sounds like FOSS bro cope. They're talking about letting users choose to have a robots.txt denying AI dataset scrapers lol.

Not like other sites do a good job of preventing it anyway. robots.txt is not worth the metaphorical paper it's written on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

AI Data Miners really are a plague of our times...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Saw it coming but I didn't think it'd be that quick.