Neatnik Notes · Gotta block ’em all
While we’re playing whack-a-mole, let’s poison these rodents.
Link tags: robots
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Blocking bots – Manu
Blocking the bots is step one.
Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent • Robb Knight
See, this is exactly why we need to poison these bots.
AI Agents robots.txt Builder | Dark Visitors
A handy resource for keeping your blocklist up to date in your robots.txt file.
Though the name of the website is unfortunate with its racism-via-laziness nomenclature.
Robots.txt - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I realized why I hadn’t yet added any rules to my
robots.txt: I have zero faith in it.
Documentation for GPTBot - OpenAI API
Now that the horse has bolted—and ransacked the web—you can shut the barn door:
To disallow GPTBot to access your site you can add the GPTBot to your site’s robots.txt:
User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: /
Pulling my site from Google over AI training – Tracy Durnell
I’m not down with Google swallowing everything posted on the internet to train their generative AI models.
A principled approach to evolving choice and control for web content
This would mean a lot more if it happened before the wholesale harvesting of everyone’s work.
But I’m sure Google will put a mighty fine lock on that stable door that the horse bolted from.
Gendered AI: Gender Presentation and Distributions in sci-fi AI | Sci-fi interfaces
Thorough (and grim) research from Chris.
Malicious AI Report
Well, this an interesting format experiment—the latest Black Mirror just dropped, and it’s a PDF.
WALL·E | Typeset In The Future
A deep dive into Pixar’s sci-fi masterpiece, featuring entertaining detours to communist propaganda and Disney theme parks.
Untold AI: The Untold | Sci-fi interfaces
Prompted by his time at Clearleft’s AI gathering in Juvet, Chris has been delving deep into the stories we tell about artificial intelligence …and what stories are missing.
And here we are at the eponymous answer to the question that I first asked at Juvet around 7 months ago: What stories aren’t we telling ourselves about AI?
Andy Budd - De l’imaginaire à la réalité : panorama de la robotique on Vimeo
A thoroughly entertaining talk by Andy looking at the past, present, and future of robots, AI, and automation.
After the flood | Projects | Robot Life Survey
Lovely prints!
The Robot Life Survey is an alternative-history from design company After the flood, where mechanical intelligence is discovered by man, noted and painted for posterity and science.
Here there be robots: A medieval map of Mars
Mappa Mundi Rubrum.
TARS, CASE & KIPP from Interstellar
Print out the plans, fold and glue/sellotape the paper together, and you’ve got yourself the best sci-fi robots in recent cinema history.
Curiosity Hub
This nifty place in Brighton is just down the street from me:
Our classes allow kids to get creative with exciting, cutting-edge technology and software.
▶ 100 Robots - Spaceteam - YouTube
See that helmet? That’s my helmet. Jim borrowed it for this video.
And now I think that the Future Friendly posse has a theme song.
NodeCopter Brighton
Let’s spend the day after Full Frontal programming flying robots with JavaScript. Clearleft is sponsoring a drone; want to play with it?
