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!

  • ono@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yes, please.

    We can’t stop LLM developers from scraping our conversations if they’re determined to do so, but we can at least make our wishes clear. If they respect our wishes, then great. If they don’t, then they’ll be unable to plead ignorance, and our signpost in the road (along with those from other instances) might influence legislation as it’s drafted in the coming years.

  • Shadow@lemmy.caM
    1·
    1 year ago

    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