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by omoikane 825 days ago
> Couldn't this be handled in robots.txt?

That would require knowing all the user agents that would scrape content, assuming that you want to only exclude AI scrapers and not search engines in general.

OpenAI's user agent is GPTBot[1], I am not sure about the others.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37030568
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AnthonyMouse 825 days ago
How are you proposing to distinguish between "AI" and "search engines"? Most of the search engines now have a summarizer at the top which is presumably LLM output, and search engines operate on the basis of ML in general.
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xigoi 824 days ago
> Most of the search engines now have a summarizer at the top which is presumably LLM output, and search engines operate on the basis of ML in general.

There is still a difference between scraping content for the purpose of searching it and training on it.

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AnthonyMouse 823 days ago
A search engine is an AI model that outputs search results. Creating the index is training it. There is no obvious principled way to distinguish them.
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