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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?

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What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?

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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/32165111

I realize my options are limited, but what about any robots.txt style steps? Thanks for any suggestions.

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0.- Take it out of the public.
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  Right, but if it has to stay public would you simply do nothing?
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  I shut down one of my sites once I realized the massive traffic spike was all AI.

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