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by justshowpost 1441 days ago
The reason - to make it only readable by human eyes - doesn’t make sense. It is always only ever readable by human eyes since bots don’t have eyes. You don’t mean eyes, but consciousness? Bots don’t have consciousness, at least until AGI isn’t here yet.

By being indexed by bots and published on the Web, it’s just more human eyes. If you just want certain human eyes, then you instead need access control.

By trying to exclude machines you just make it harder for humans to use the information, like copy pasting, text-to-speech, screen readers for the blind, etc.