AI training crawlers hit my site 1,534 times. One fetch read the rights files
2026.08.22·3 min read·AI Training · Music RightsVerified · v1 ↗ VerifyThe rights files nobody readsContentsFourteen days of machine readershipA measurement, not a blind spotWhat the files are forThis site counts its machine readers. A small sensor at the edge classifies every automated fetch by crawler family and by the kind of surface it touched, then stores the counts and nothing else. No IP addresses, no paths beyond a coarse surface class, no record of humans at all.
- ▪2026.08.22·3 min read·AI Training · Music RightsVerified · v1 ↗ VerifyThe rights files nobody readsContentsFourteen days of machine readershipA measurement, not a blind spotWhat the files are forThis site counts its machine readers.
- ▪A small sensor at the edge classifies every automated fetch by crawler family and by the kind of surface it touched, then stores the counts and nothing else.
- ▪No IP addresses, no paths beyond a coarse surface class, no record of humans at all.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 7,438 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Juan Lentino |
| Canonical URL | https://juanlentino.com/notes/the-rights-files-nobody-reads/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:24:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-03T14:33:12.829Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-03T14:33:12.829Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | rqqVanVmYRjL · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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2026.08.22·3 min read·AI Training · Music RightsVerified · v1 ↗ VerifyThe rights files nobody readsContentsFourteen days of machine readershipA measurement, not a blind spotWhat the files are forThis site counts its machine readers. A small sensor at the edge classifies every automated fetch by crawler family and by the kind of surface it touched, then stores the counts and nothing else. No IP addresses, no paths beyond a coarse surface class, no record of humans at all. It was built to answer one narrow question: when a crawler that openly identifies as an AI-training agent reads this site, does it ever consult the terms it is bound by?The terms are published where the standards say to publish them.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Juan Lentino.
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