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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic to honor robots.txt for AI training opt-out

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Major AI companies including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic have agreed to respect the robots.txt file's directive to opt out of AI training data. This move aims to give website owners more control over how their content is used for training AI models. The specific line to add to a robots.txt file will allow sites to signal their non-consent for AI training purposes. AI

IMPACT Grants website owners more control over AI training data, potentially impacting future model development.

RANK_REASON Agreement by major AI labs on a policy issue regarding data usage. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic to honor robots.txt for AI training opt-out

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · madrobotblog ·

    OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will obey one robots.txt line that opts your site out of AI training OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honour

    OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will obey one robots.txt line that opts your site out of AI training OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honour one robots.txt rule that opts a site out of AI training. Here’s the line to add and its limits. # OpenAI # SEO # AI htt…

    LINKS madrobot.blog/…/robots-txt-ai-training-op…

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