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Ads.txt
- legrande 3y agoAlso needed: ai.txt declaring which AI bots are allowed or disallowed to scrape content
- organsnyder 3y agoCouldn't this be handled in robots.txt?
- 8organicbits 3y agoNot well. You'd need to know which user-agent strings the AI scrapers use, which is impossible to enumerate.
- omoikane 3y ago> Couldn't this be handled in robots.txt? That would require knowing all the user agents that would scrape content, assuming that you want to only exclude AI scrapers and not search engines in general. OpenAI's user agent is GPTBot[1], I am not sure about the others. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37030568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37030568
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoHow are you proposing to distinguish between "AI" and "search engines"? Most of the search engines now have a summarizer at the top which is presumably LLM output, and search engines operate on the basis of ML in general.
- xigoi 3y ago> Most of the search engines now have a summarizer at the top which is presumably LLM output, and search engines operate on the basis of ML in general. There is still a difference between scraping content for the purpose of searching it and training on it.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoA search engine is an AI model that outputs search results. Creating the index is training it. There is no obvious principled way to distinguish them.
- avg_dev 3y agopretty cool. anybody have a site with an example? I tried google.com but it is not there.
- akira2501 3y agohttps://www.audacy.com/ads.txt https://www.audacy.com/ads.txt
- nilay 3y agoFacebook's response is insightful. They only run ads through their own network. # Facebook.com/ads.txt # # Facebook inventory can only be purchased from Facebook advertising # systems, and cannot be purchased programmatically through open # exchanges. Therefore there are no authorized sellers or resellers # listed in this facebook.com/ads.txt file. https://www.facebook.com/ads.txt https://www.facebook.com/ads.txt
- nateb2022 3y agohttps://www.lenovo.com/ads.txt https://www.lenovo.com/ads.txt https://www.spotify.com/ads.txt https://www.spotify.com/ads.txt
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- AnthonyMouse 3y agoHow is this supposed to work when anybody can resell anything? Suppose someone wants to run a service that will put your ads on all the popular sites, one stop shopping. Facebook only sells ad space directly, but this company would simply take your money and use it to buy ads from Facebook and others, which is totally legitimate. And Facebook interfering with this would have obvious anti-trust implications.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoFrom what I understand this would only apply for those who claim to be authorized resellers.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoBut why would anybody care about that? You want to know if something is real, not if it's authorized. It's like buying gray market products. The important thing is to be able to tell if they're fraudulent/counterfeit, not to be able to tell if they were original sold into your region, which the customer doesn't give a lick about.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoWarranties?
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoFor digital ads?
- MichaelZuo 3y agoFor the products being sold…
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