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If you want to block access to a site, stop relying on arbitrary opt-in voluntary things like user agent or robots.txt. Make your site authenticated only, that’s literally the only answer here.
The only way out seems to be using obscene captcha.
I don’t think we should lump together “AI company scraping a website to train their base model” and “AI tool retrieving a web page because I asked it to”. At least, those should be two different user agents so you have the option to block one and not the other.
Is it actually retrieving the page on the fly though? How do you know this? Even if it were - it’s not supposed to be able to.
I don’t think we should lump together “AI company scraping a website to train their base model” and “AI tool retrieving a web page because I asked it to”. At least, those should be two different user agents so you have the option to block one and not the other.
Is it actually retrieving the page on the fly though? How do you know this? Even if it were - it’s not supposed to be able to.
Read this article if you want to know Perplexity’s idea of taking other people’s content and thinking they can get away with it, https://stackdiary.com/perplexity-has-a-plagiarism-problem/ The CEO said that they have some “rough edges” to figure out, but their entire product is built on stealing people’s content. And apparently[0] they want to start paying big publishers to make all that noise go away. [0]: https://w…
Discriminating based on User-Agent string is the unethical part.
I don’t think we should lump together “AI company scraping a website to train their base model” and “AI tool retrieving a web page because I asked it to”. At least, those should be two different user agents so you have the option to block one and not the other.
If you've ever tried to do any web scraping, you'll know why they lie about the User-Agent, and you'd do it too if you wanted your program to work properly. Discriminating based on User-Agent string is the unethical part.