Google, Anthropic plan to support AI crawling opt-out standard
SiliconANGLE: Google, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will enable website operators to block artificial intelligence developers from using their content to train their models. Many websites contain a text file titled “robots.txt” that informs crawlers what content they may access. […] The post Google, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard appeared first on SiliconANGL
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Major AI developers announced support for a new website crawling standard that would allow website operators to block artificial intelligence developers from using their content to train models. Currently, websites use a text file called robots.txt to manage crawler access, but blocking AI-specific scrapers requires separate entries for each AI provider. The new standard would simplify this process by allowing a single robots.txt entry to block all scrapers collecting training data for generative AI models. The developers plan to incorporate this standard into the existing Robots Exclusion Protocol format and submit it to the Internet Engineering Task Force, with implementation expected to begin in the coming months.
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