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I love watching Let’s Plays of Telltale games and similar games like Life is Strange. But usually, the first episode is hardest to watch through, because in these types of games, the first episode also serves as a very drawn out tutorial and has the most of the lore dumps.
Yup. The robots.txt file is not only meant to block robots from accessing the site, it’s also meant to block bots from accessing resources that are not interesting for human readers, even indirectly.
For example, MediaWiki installations are pretty clever in that by default,
/w/
is blocked and/wiki/
is encouraged. Because nobody wants technical pages and wiki histories in search results, they only want the current versions of the pages.Fun tidbit: in the late 1990s, there was a real epidemic of spammers scraping the web pages for email addresses. Some people developed
wpoison.cgi
, a script whose sole purpose was to generate garbage web pages with bogus email addresses. Real search engines ignored these, thanks to robots.txt. Guess what the spam bots did?Do the AI bros really want to go there? Are they asking for model collapse?