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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 10:06:34 JST Anil Dash

   Truly my greatest professional joy is that, not only did we get to build a tool to help people stop AI bots from scraping up their work without consent, I was able to have our in-house artist create a SLOP sign to mark the spot where the bots expire.

   If you are a non-profit or open source project that does good internet stuff, we’ll protect you for free. If not, then you can pay us money and we will hook you up. Either way, good tools to put you in control over the bots. https://www.fastly.com/blog/take-back-control-make-ai-bots-play-by-your-rules

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:08:08 JST Anil Dash

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     • Travis F W
     • Endy

     @travisfw @egoldblatt that’s a thing site owners can control.

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     Travis F W (travisfw@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:08:09 JST Travis F W

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     • Endy

     @egoldblatt @anildash Yes, my first thought: is there a protocol for the wayback machine (or similar robots.txt -respecting crawlers) to bypass the filter for the public good?

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     Endy (egoldblatt@gardenstate.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:08:10 JST Endy

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     @anildash Have you contacted any of the following and offered help: Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, or LibriVox?

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:08:54 JST Anil Dash

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     • Colby Russell

     @colby no, just the silly art part. But yeah, I take your larger point.

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     Colby Russell (colby@kosmos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:08:56 JST Colby Russell

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     @anildash your greatest professional joy is implementing a traffic cop for AI company bots?

     Bleak.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 22:09:50 JST Anil Dash

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     • Endy

     @egoldblatt yeah. Internet Archive is (understandably!) reluctant to have any commercial dependencies. I think the challenge for them then is that it’s very, very expensive for them to manage serving this kind of traffic on their own.