Those of you who have your own sites, might want to give this a quick look: It's just a text file, similar to robots.txt, but for AI crawlers, rather than search engine ones. Probably not very effective, as of now, but at least it's a way to make it clear you don't conset to your site being used for AI training, without making it suck for human users, in the process.

(#fucv4ya) @thecanine Ahh good idea!

(#fucv4ya) Thank you for this!

(#fucv4ya) I had so many complaints about this Web page it wouldn't fit in a twt.

…#fucv4ya) @mckinley @prologic Yes, I agree the website itself sucks and the company behind it is incompetent at best - even more so, with their other websites. Their first site (haveibeentrained.com)…

…#fucv4ya) @thecanine @prologic @eldersnake @mckinley This page is just a terrible joke. Great writeup, mckinley! Exactly my thoughts, but you forgot to mention that you see zero contents unless you sc…

(#fucv4ya) @lyse I also can't find the user agent string they use, which seems like it would be important information.

(#fucv4ya) @lyse their crawler does not read the robots txt and to my knowledge, neither do any other AI crawlers. As always, they considered themselves exempt, from everything they find inconvenient.

…#fucv4ya) @mckinley Haha, right. They might have figured that everybody is just using `*` anyway. :-D Evidence from logs suggests "Spawning-AI". Yup, @thecanine, I thought so, too. Reminds me a bit o…