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ChatGPT Atlas

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1. scoofy ◴[] No.45658890[source]
This is a fun way to get around robots.txt "Disallow: /"
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2. SeanAnderson ◴[] No.45659438[source]
There is no law that says you have to respect robots.txt. It's just a suggestion.
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3. scoofy ◴[] No.45659628[source]
For the websites that ChatGPT wants to scrape -- Reddit immediately comes to mind -- it's not an issue of law, it's an issue of "the infrastructure now exists to prevent you from doing that."
4. qingcharles ◴[] No.45659836[source]
It also completes CAPTCHAs when I tried it. And clicks the "I am human" buttons.

Sometimes it hesitates on really important button clicks that it determines are not reversible. I was using it to test the UX on an app in beta and it didn't want to click the final step. I had to "trick" it by reminding it I owned the app.

It felt like that scene in Short Circuit 2 where they trick Johnny 5 into plasma cutting his way through a bank vault because it is "their" vault and they are simply testing the security. Wild times.