Nicholas Vincent explains why robots.txt is no longer enough to protect against web scraping.

Robots.txt just isn’t up to the task of keeping public data out of AI training sets. The only thing between a website and an internet scraper’s database is a tiny file called robots.txt, a small configuration file that tells web crawlers for services ranging from Google to OpenAI which parts of a site they canContinue reading “Nicholas Vincent explains why robots.txt is no longer enough to protect against web scraping.”