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Should we block OpenAI from scrapping the server? (platform.openai.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on board for this, but I feel obliged to point out that it's basically symbolic and won't mean anything. Since all the data is federated out, they have a plethora of places to harvest it from - or more likely just run their own activitypub harvester.

I've thrown a block into nginx so I don't need to muck with robots.txt inside the lemmy-ui container.

# curl -H 'User-agent: GPTBot' https://lemmy.ca/ -i
HTTP/2 403

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I imagine they rate limit their requests too so I doubt you'll notice any difference in resource usage. OVH is Unmetered* so bandwidth isn't really a concern either.

I don't think it will hurt anything but adding it is kind of pointless for the reasons you said.