Comment by Fizz43
2 days ago
>So, instead of defining a bot primarily as “AI” or not, our updated approach to classification will ask deeper questions about bot or agent behavior: What are they doing on my site? What are they storing? And how will they reshare my content?
I dont get this. The question is are they a bot or a human. It doesnt matter what they are doing I dont want bots on my site.
> I dont get this. The question is are they a bot or a human. It doesnt matter what they are doing I dont want bots on my site.
Do you want your site to be discoverable by a search engine? (How do you think that occurs?)
Let's also spare a moment for accessibility issues. For example, is it that wrong for a blind person to invoke a tool that describes a picture when there's no alt-text? Or something which describes/transcribes audio for the deaf?
Where do we draw the line between a personal-bot and a custom browser?
Could there be a proper committee/association which can have all good faith search engines (which work for the purpose of search rather than AI related) which could show their proper IP/networks and cloudflare could have an option which supports all search but not any AI botnets.
That being said, the issue with it right now is that Google uses the same crawler for both AI training and search, so this step puts a small pressure on google nonetheless to hopefully split them.
Why not. You need a reason. A browser is just a bot that renders pages.