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AI giants agree on new standard to control web scraping for training

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Major AI companies including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic have agreed to adopt a new standard for website scraping. This initiative, proposed by Anthropic's Kevin Kelley and to be integrated into the robots.txt file, will allow publishers to universally signal their preferences regarding AI training data collection. While most companies plan to respect this opt-out, Microsoft will offer more granular controls, distinguishing between opting out of AI training and AI grounding, and will continue to show sites in Bing search results. AI

IMPACT Establishes a unified mechanism for publishers to control AI data scraping, potentially impacting future AI training datasets and content licensing.

RANK_REASON Industry-wide agreement on a new policy standard for AI data collection.

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AI giants agree on new standard to control web scraping for training

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. The Verge — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Emma Roth ·

    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…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 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 publishe

    📰 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 con... 📰 Source…

    LINKS theverge.com/…/openai-google-microsoft-ai…

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