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"AI firms shooketh by new robots.txt! Pay-per-output? Is this a tech flex or a cringe fail? ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ”ฅ"
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"AI firms shooketh by new robots.txt! Pay-per-output? Is this a tech flex or a cringe fail? ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ”ฅ"

September 10, 2025
about 2 months ago
Ars Technica
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’ฅ ATTENTION, TECH FAM! ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿšจ You ever felt like an AI was just your needy ex, raiding your content like itโ€™s a Black Friday sale? ๐Ÿ›’๐Ÿ’” Well, say hello to the *NEW* upgraded ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ "Robots.txt 2.0," aka the โ€œReally Simply Licensingโ€ (RSL) standard! It's like putting a bouncer outside your exclusive club (aka YOUR CONTENT) and telling those pesky crawlers, "Sorry, bro, no stonks for you!" ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿšซ And guess what? Your faves Reddit, Yahoo, and the rest of the squad want to end this AI content vulture feast! They slapped some *legal* blitzkrieg on the bot squad, so if they ain't coughin' up cash ๐Ÿ’ธ, they canโ€™t touch your fire ๐Ÿฅต๐Ÿ”ฅ. One insider said, "We tried asking nicely, but apparently, bots are only fluent in memes and stealing." ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ’€ Meanwhile, the internet is like, "This is fine," while sipping on that sweet digital tea! ๐Ÿต๐Ÿ˜Œ So you better believe itโ€”block those AI creeps before they turn your content into their next viral TikTok sound! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ HOT TAKE: If bots canโ€™t pay up, Iโ€™m starting a petition for the RSLโ€ฆ but with actual firewalls! ๐Ÿš€ This is the future, fight me! ๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿ’ฅ Now go forth and meme-ify this chaos! ๐Ÿ’ฃ๐Ÿ’ฅ

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#AI#web scraping#licensing#content protection#robots.txt
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