large-language-models

I have enabled Apple Intelligence on my iPad Pro and MacBook Air now that it’s available in Australian English, because I am an Information Professional and want to be able to give informed advice to colleagues and family members if they ask about it. GOOD: Apple Intelligence is off by default. GOOD: I can enable notification summaries on a per-app basis. GOOD: I haven’t seen any examples of summaries making the kinds of terrible misinterpretation that have been reported elsewhere. Maybe some kinks have been ironed out. ...

The Robots Exclusion Protocol was initially developed in the early years of the web to prevent small websites from being overwhelmed by search engine crawlers, and its use has expanded to exclude robots for a variety of reasons, most recently to keep artificial intelligence bots from feeding their large language models with web content. There are various hand-picked lists of known AI bots that have been circulating among web developers, and there’s also Dark Visitors, which maintains a comprehensive list of known bots, categorised by type. You can use this resource to generate your own robots.txt, either by copying the example file, or by using the free Dark Visitors API to customise the types you want to exclude. ...