HACKER Q&A
📣 calvcalv

How can I make Google not use my website to train their language models?


If I provide them with data to power their Zero Click Search, I'm effectively cutting my web traffic to zero. This does not seem fair.


  👤 version_five Accepted Answer ✓
Does robots.txt not work? Is the issue that you want to be indexed but otherwise not have them use what they crawl for other stuff?

If I'm interpreting this right, I agree that it's scummy of them to set up a kind of social contract where they can index your stuff and then decide actually they can do whatever they want with it. This is effectively what happened with news sites I think. But at this point, they are at the stage of reaping the rewards of the monopoly they built, so antitrust laws are unfortunately the likely recourse.


👤 ge96
I wonder if that will change. Recently I noticed they don't show their own stop watch anymore. Some website shows up that you have to click into.