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Comment by mycall

> Any contents blocked by the current robots.txt is removed retroactively from the entire 2013-2024 range of the training dataset

Why not check historical versions of the robots.txt (e.g. archive.org) and contain the retroactive cutoff to a certain date range, parsing the robots.txt accordingly? That might increase the corpus size within legal and fair use boundaries.

parent mycall 1 year ago

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