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Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#101

AI industry: "AI agents will soon be able to do any white-collar human job!" Also AI industry: "Please make sure your website is adapted so that AI agents are able to use it."

It remains to be seen if companies are going to spend more effort in to making AI-accessible design than they do user-accessible design.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#102
post #87

I'd rather have a site showing how well my site is protected from being accessed by AI agents would be preferable, and advises how I can lock it down further. Basically, the exact opposite of this.

You might want to take a look at AI Crawl Controls https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-crawl-control/

I might, except I don't, because fuck Cloudflare.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#103

Conspicuously missing: why should I care? I have reduced my online presence to much less than it once was partly because I don't want to feed this machine training data that I've worked hard to make for a human audience.

Printed and mailed newsletters should make a comeback.

You might be joking, but frankly, I wouldn't mind.

Though this is undermined somewhat by stories like this one[0], where an AI runs a "slow life" store catering to a lifestyle that specifically tries to disconnect from technology.

It's incredibly perverse.

    [0] https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#104
post #79

The absurd process of SEO hucksters trying to pivot their obsolete services into "GEO" as most ecommerce websites realize their entire value was a list of part numbers and prices.

GEO?

"Generative Engine Optimization" a phrase as dumb as the idea.

For 30 years marketers have been doing everything they can to avoid making sites useful for people, despite that being what Google rewarded from the start (e.g. relevant link text, page titles, and headings).

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#105

I'd rather have a site showing how well my site is protected from being accessed by AI agents would be preferable, and advises how I can lock it down further. Basically, the exact opposite of this.

Maybe we can start a new protocol where the html is encrypted, and the viewer must try 2^10 to 2^20 hashes before the decryption key is discovered. Same formula that BTC mining uses. It would be negligible cost for any single user but terribly expensive for crawling en-masse.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#107

AI industry: "AI agents will soon be able to do any white-collar human job!" Also AI industry: "Please make sure your website is adapted so that AI agents are able to use it."

Seriously, why help an industry that we all know doesn't care and will still scrap your site regardless? The least they can do it put in some minimal effort without expecting everyone to bend over for them.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Businesses are generally in the business of serving human customers, not AI agents. Furthermore, if AI agents are so smart, surely they can figure it out for themselves.

gotta be a bit naive to think this way, no? "if x is so smart, why can't it just do y automatically?"

Isn't that the promise of AI??

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Businesses are generally in the business of serving human customers, not AI agents. Furthermore, if AI agents are so smart, surely they can figure it out for themselves.

gotta be a bit naive to think this way, no? "if x is so smart, why can't it just do y automatically?"

As a user, why would I trust an AI agent that cannot consistently use non-AI-tailored websites? If it cannot even do that, who knows what other failure modes it may hit me with.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#110

AI industry: "AI agents will soon be able to do any white-collar human job!" Also AI industry: "Please make sure your website is adapted so that AI agents are able to use it."

Seriously, why help an industry that we all know doesn't care and will still scrap your site regardless? The least they can do it put in some minimal effort without expecting everyone to bend over for them.

That would violate the minimum required level of entitlement.
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