Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions

9 pointsposted 5 months ago
by m-watson

3 Comments

ndsipa_pomu

5 months ago

I don't see how this solves the problem of misbehaving companies that want to train LLMs. Isn't this just going to fall back to copyright laws if a company is found to be breaching the terms as there's no signed contract etc.

m-watson

5 months ago

Here is the actual RSL website [0] and announcement [1]

"RSL is an open, decentralized protocol, based on the widely adopted RSS (Really Simple Syndication) standard, that scales to millions of websites and can be applied to any digital content, including web pages, books, videos, and datasets."

[0] https://rslcollective.org/ [1] https://rslstandard.org/press/rsl-standard