The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping

Summary

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that lets publishers set one AI training preference across several AI companies instead of configuring each one separately. The shared "policy token" signal, proposed by Kevin Kelley of Anthropic within the IETF, would live in a website's robots.txt file, which already indicates which crawlers may scrape a site.

Related items

• Medium“Black October” for AI Developer PlatformsSame vendor · Wiz Research Blog
• Infodbreunig/nesformerSame vendor · Simon Willison's Weblog
• MediumCritical Linux kernel flaw allows remote root attacks on MPTCP serversSame vendor · BleepingComputer
• InfoSam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your deskSame vendor · The Verge (AI)
• MediumA Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of DevicesSame vendor · Wired (Security)