• wabafee@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I hope not, laws tend to get outdated real fast. Who knows robots.txt might not even be used in the future and it just there adding space because of law reasons.

    • Tyfud@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      You can describe the law in a similar way to a specification, and you can make it as broad as needed. Something like the file name shouldn’t ever come up as an issue.

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        8 months ago

        The law can be broad with allowances to define specifics by decree, executive order or the equivalent.

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      8 months ago

      We don’t need new laws we just need enforcement of existing laws. It is already illegal to copy copyrighted content, it’s just that the AI companies do it anyway and no one does anything about it.

      Enforcing respect for robots.txt doesn’t matter because the AI companies are already breaking the law.