• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    Afaik the OpenAI bot may choose to ignore it? At least that’s what another user claimed it does.

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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      9 months ago

      Robots.txt has been always ignored by some bots, it’s just a guideline originally meant to prevent excessive bandwidth usage by search indexing bots and is entirely voluntary.

      Archive.org bot for example has completely ignored it since 2017.