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AI giants agree to honor robots.txt opt-out for training data

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Several major AI companies, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, have agreed to honor a new robots.txt opt-out directive for AI training. This directive, specified with `User-agent: __usage_ai-training` and `Disallow: /`, allows websites to signal that their content should not be used for training AI models. The companies committed to respecting this opt-out on different dates. AI

IMPACT This agreement could significantly impact how AI models are trained, potentially leading to more ethical data sourcing and greater control for website owners over their content.

RANK_REASON Major tech companies agreeing to a new industry standard for AI training data. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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

    New robots.txt opt-out for AI training: a group with User-agent: __usage_ai-training and Disallow: /. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic said on 30 Oct the

    New robots.txt opt-out for AI training: a group with User-agent: __usage_ai-training and Disallow: /. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic said on 30 Oct they'll honour it, on different dates. We tried Disallow: / then Allow: /press/ in Python 3.9.6's robotparser. /press/ stil…

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