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[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The best proposal I've seen so far ~~short of destroying all AI scrapers~~, and essentially what anyone familiar with the specs would come up with.

The only thing I'd add is an analogue to data-nosnippet to exclude only specific sections of the HTML document (w/o needing to reach for an entire iframe); though that's harder to implement on the crawler end so maybe that's for the best.

Google uses a second User-Agent directive; while Bing suggests using noarchive. Both of these are pretty hacky and not general, so it'd be good to see the industry standardize on the above proposal.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

The proposal itself does still assume that AI scrapers are being run by decent human beings with functioning moral compasses, which is why I feel its inadequate.

This take might be overly harsh on AI/tech as a whole, but at this point I've run out of patience regarding this bubble and see no reason to believe anyone in the AI space is a decent human being, at least for the time being.

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