Right now, robots.txt on lemmy.ca is configured this way

User-Agent: *
  Disallow: /login
  Disallow: /login_reset
  Disallow: /settings
  Disallow: /create_community
  Disallow: /create_post
  Disallow: /create_private_message
  Disallow: /inbox
  Disallow: /setup
  Disallow: /admin
  Disallow: /password_change
  Disallow: /search/
  Disallow: /modlog

Would it be a good idea privacy-wise to deny GPTBot from scrapping content from the server?

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Thanks!

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Server load spent on a bot scraping our contributions to be used to make money.

    There’s so much there that it’s gonna offend someone.

    • Elise@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t it just be scraped once (per company)? That doesn’t sound like such a problem.