Anna's Archive Publishes LLMs.txt Page Targeting AI Crawlers — 863 Points on Hacker News

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Anna's Archive published a dedicated llms.txt page designed to be read by LLM crawlers, requesting donations and explaining its mission to preserve 64M+ books and 95M+ papers (1.1 petabytes). The page hit 863 points and 450 comments on HN, sparking debate about AI-targeted web content, prompt injection via websites, and the ethics of training on pirated archives.