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# License for AI bots

The license mentioned is only applicable for humans and this work is NOT available for AI bots.

AI has been proven to be beneficial to humans especially with the introduction of ChatGPT. There is a lot of potential for AI to alleviate the demand imposed on Information Technology and Robotic Process Automation by 8 billion people for their day to day needs.

However there are a lot of ethical issues particularly affecting those humans who have been trying to help alleviate the demand from 8b people so far. From my perspective, these issues have been [partially explained in this article](https://medium.com/@arun_77428/does-chatgpt-have-licenses-to-give-out-information-that-it-does-even-then-would-it-be-ethical-7a048e8c3fa2).

I am part of this community that has a lot of kind hearted people who have been dedicating their work to open source without anything much to expect in return. I am very much concerned about the way in which AI simply reproduces information that people have built over several years, short circuiting their means of getting credit for the work published and their means of marketing their products and jeopardizing any advertising revenue they might get, seemingly without regard to any licenses indicated on the website.

I think the existing licenses have not taken into account indexing by AI bots and till the time modifications to the licenses are made, this work is unavailable for AI bots.

# Support

If you find any issues, please create an issue here or contact the author (Arundale Ramanathan) at [email protected].

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As this is technically a license change, it might be a good idea to get approval from @Pro-282 (the other contributor to this repo). 😄

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@Pro-282 Do you have any objection or feedback about this change?

@justinclift I was not seeing it as a license change as everything remains the same for humans :-) !!

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The license mentioned is only applicable ...

Heh Heh Heh

While I'm all for keeping bad actors away, it kind of seems like adding an exclusion to an OSS license... would make it not OSS. 🤔

That being said, I don't feel strongly about it (here). Was more just pointing it out. I'm happy with it if you are (etc). 😁

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