AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt
AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt
As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
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Most every other social contract has been violated already. If they don't ignore robots.txt, what is left to violate?? Hmm??
71 0 ReplyIt's almost as if leaving things to social contracts vs regulating them is bad for the layperson... 🤔
Nah fuck it. The market will regulate itself! Tax is theft and I don't want that raise or I'll get in a higher tax bracket and make less!
46 0 ReplyThis can actually be an issue for poor people, not because of tax brackets but because of income-based assistance cutoffs. If $1/hr raise throws you above those cutoffs, that extra $160 could cost you $500 in food assistance, $5-$10/day for school lunch, or get you kicked out of government subsidied housing.
Yet another form of persecution that the poor actually suffer and the rich pretend to.
16 0 ReplyGod the number of people I’ve heard say this over the years is nuts.
9 0 ReplyAnd then the companies hit the "trust thermocline", customers leave them in droves and companies wonder how this could've happened.
8 0 ReplyI got it was sarcasm, but it's always good to add a /s just in case
7 0 ReplyYea, because authoritarianism is well known to be sooooo good for the layperson.
4 0 ReplyAh yes, equal protection under the law... the true hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
6 0 Reply1 0 ReplyFiction can be fun!
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