Neatnik Notes · Gotta block ’em all
While we’re playing whack-a-mole, let’s poison these rodents.
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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.
Why Not Mars (Idle Words)
I’ve come to believe the best way to look at our Mars program is as a faith-based initiative. There is a small cohort of people who really believe in going to Mars, the way some people believe in ghosts or cryptocurrency, and this group has an outsize effect on our space program.
Maciej lays out the case against a crewed mission to Mars.
Like George Lucas preparing to release another awful prequel, NASA is hoping that cool spaceships and nostalgia will be enough to keep everyone from noticing that their story makes no sense. But you can’t lie your way to Mars, no matter how sincerely you believe in what you’re doing.
And don’t skip the footnotes:
Fourth graders writing to Santa make a stronger case for an X-Box than NASA has been able to put together for a Mars landing.
Roboto … But Make It Flex - Material Design
This version of Roboto from Font Bureau is a very variable font indeed.
Gendered AI: Gender Presentation and Distributions in sci-fi AI | Sci-fi interfaces
Thorough (and grim) research from Chris.
Tellart | Design Nonfiction
An online documentary series featuring interviews with smart people about the changing role of design.
As technology becomes more complex and opaque, how will we as designers understand its potential, do hands-on work, translate it into forms people can understand and use, and lead meaningful conversations with manufacturers and policymakers about its downstream implications? We are entering a new technology landscape shaped by artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and synthetic biology.
So far there’s Kevin Slavin, Molly Wright Steenson, and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, with more to come from the likes of Matt Jones, Anab Jain, Dan Hill, and many, many more.
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.
Mozilla betrays Firefox users and its nominal principles
That’s a harsh headline but it is unfortunately deserved. We should indeed hold Mozilla to a higher standard.
JSRobot
Learn JavaScript by playing/programming a platform game.
InspiroBot
I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence.
