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User shares robots.txt to block AI scrapers from Mastodon blog

A user has shared their robots.txt configuration for their Bear blog, hosted on Mastodon, to prevent AI scrapers from accessing their content. This configuration aims to protect the blog's data from being used for AI training or other automated data collection purposes. AI

IMPACT Minimal direct impact on AI development or deployment; primarily a user-level concern about data scraping.

RANK_REASON User-generated content about blocking AI scrapers, not a formal release or industry event.

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User shares robots.txt to block AI scrapers from Mastodon blog

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    https:// thoughts.pivic.com/against-ai- my-bear-configuration/ Here's my Bear blog robots.txt configuration to try to protect a Bear blog from AI scrapers. # Ar

    https:// thoughts.pivic.com/against-ai- my-bear-configuration/ Here's my Bear blog robots.txt configuration to try to protect a Bear blog from AI scrapers. # ArtificialIntelligence # Bear # BearBlog # AI