▲ 57 ▼ What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? (discuss.online) submitted 8 months ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/32165111 I realize my options are limited, but what about any robots.txt style steps? Thanks for any suggestions.
[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 8 months ago (2 children) 0.- Take it out of the public. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DragonBard@ttrpg.network 3 points 8 months ago I shut down one of my sites once I realized the massive traffic spike was all AI. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kiol@discuss.online [S] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) Right, but if it has to stay public would you simply do nothing? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 8 months ago Nah. But if what you want is to prevent rather than palliate or delay (AIs will get throug Anubis, in fact from what I read some of them already do), then pretty much your only option is real-person authentication, so that if stuff does get leaked, you have a discrete list of people who to hold accountable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DragonBard@ttrpg.network 3 points 8 months ago I shut down one of my sites once I realized the massive traffic spike was all AI. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kiol@discuss.online [S] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) Right, but if it has to stay public would you simply do nothing? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 8 months ago Nah. But if what you want is to prevent rather than palliate or delay (AIs will get throug Anubis, in fact from what I read some of them already do), then pretty much your only option is real-person authentication, so that if stuff does get leaked, you have a discrete list of people who to hold accountable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 8 months ago Nah. But if what you want is to prevent rather than palliate or delay (AIs will get throug Anubis, in fact from what I read some of them already do), then pretty much your only option is real-person authentication, so that if stuff does get leaked, you have a discrete list of people who to hold accountable. permalink fedilink source parent