Biggest Names AI Backing
A rare sight these days: the biggest labs agreeing on one shared opt-out signal instead of a maze of per-company settings. The timing is telling — with copyright suits still looming over the industry, adopting a voluntary token is cheap goodwill and likely legal cover for future data collection.… more
Our skepticism: an opt-out without enforcement or compensation only legitimizes scraping everyone who fails to object, echoing how the web's decades-old robots.txt etiquette was routinely ignored. Worth watching, too, how Google juggles its roles as search gatekeeper and AI crawler. A genuine step toward a licensing market — but only if defaults and consequences follow.
The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers can apply their AI training preferences across multiple AI compani…
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The Verge
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