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Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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For those in countries that censor the Internet, such as the UK where I live, this page basically says what Anna's Archive is (very superficially), shares some useful URLs to accessing the data, asks for donations, and says an "enterprise-level donation" can get you access to a SFTP server with their files on it.

Interesting, I have no issues accessing it in the UK. I use Vodafone broadband or cellular, both fine.

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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post #11

For those in countries that censor the Internet, such as the UK where I live, this page basically says what Anna's Archive is (very superficially), shares some useful URLs to accessing the data, asks for donations, and says an "enterprise-level donation" can get you access to a SFTP server with their files on it.

Interesting, I have no issues accessing it in the UK. I use Vodafone broadband or cellular, both fine.

I'm on Vodafone in Spain and I see

> Error code: PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

If I try the http version, I get redirected to https://bloqueadaseccionsegunda.cultura.gob.es/ (which also fails with PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR).

If it wasn't enough that half the internet gets unusable whenever there is football on TV (which is fucking stupid), now we're also getting rid of free (text!) information it seems.

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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I have bad news for you: LLMs are not reading llms.txt nor AGENTS.md files from servers. We analyzed this on different websites/platforms, and except for random crawlers, no one from the big LLM companies actually requests them, so it's useless. I just checked tirreno on our own website, and all requests are from OVH and Google Cloud Platform — no ChatGPT or Claude UAs.

what if you add a to every .html

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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post #3

These folks just dumped all of Spotify. They think they did it for humans, but it really just serves the robots.

Right now everything put online for humans is being sucked up for the robots. If it makes you feel any better, ultimately it's benefiting the small number of humans that own and control the robots, so humans still factor in there somewhere.

They only derived payment because other humans find value in the robots output. In the end it’s still benefiting humans.

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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post #9

I have bad news for you: LLMs are not reading llms.txt nor AGENTS.md files from servers. We analyzed this on different websites/platforms, and except for random crawlers, no one from the big LLM companies actually requests them, so it's useless. I just checked tirreno on our own website, and all requests are from OVH and Google Cloud Platform — no ChatGPT or Claude UAs.

This is meant for openclaw agents, you are not gonna see a ChatGPT or Claude User-Agent. That's why they show it in a normal blog page and not just as /llms.txt

In tirreno (our product), we catch every resource request on the server side, including LLMs.txt and agents.md, to get the IP that requested it and the UA.

What I've seen from ASNs is that visits are coming from GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM (not from Google itself), and OVH. Based on UA, users are: WebPageTest, BuiltWith, and zero LLMs based on both ASN and UA.

1. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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For those in countries that censor the Internet, such as the UK where I live, this page basically says what Anna's Archive is (very superficially), shares some useful URLs to accessing the data, asks for donations, and says an "enterprise-level donation" can get you access to a SFTP server with their files on it.

Umm... I'm in the UK and I can see the page fine. Why would you expect this page to be censored?

I am in the UK and I can't see it unless I use a VPN. I get

This site can’t provide a secure connection annas-archive.li sent an invalid response. ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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For those in countries that censor the Internet, such as the UK where I live, this page basically says what Anna's Archive is (very superficially), shares some useful URLs to accessing the data, asks for donations, and says an "enterprise-level donation" can get you access to a SFTP server with their files on it.

Umm... I'm in the UK and I can see the page fine. Why would you expect this page to be censored?

In the UK I'm currently getting:

Hmmm… can't reach this page

Check if there is a typo in annas-archive.li.

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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For those in countries that censor the Internet, such as the UK where I live, this page basically says what Anna's Archive is (very superficially), shares some useful URLs to accessing the data, asks for donations, and says an "enterprise-level donation" can get you access to a SFTP server with their files on it.

Umm... I'm in the UK and I can see the page fine. Why would you expect this page to be censored?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive#United_Kingdo...

>In December 2024, the UK Publishers Association won an order from the High Court of Justice requiring major ISPs to block Anna's Archive and other copyright-infringing sites, extending a list of sites blocked since 2015 under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act

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