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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back IETF 'policy token' in robots.txt to opt out of AI scraping

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic said they will adopt a proposed IETF 'policy token' placed in a site's robots.txt that lets publishers express AI training preferences across multiple crawlers. Anthropic has already implemented the signal; Google and Microsoft plan support next year and OpenAI expects implementation in the coming months; Microsoft will offer more granular options and sites will still appear in Bing search results.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Unredacted NYT filings show Microsoft/OpenAI execs called AI scraping 'theft' and warned models threaten publishers

Unredacted material from The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft quotes internal statements saying AI training practices amounted to ‘‘theft’’ and that models are ‘‘substitutive’’ or an ‘‘existential threat’’ to publishers. The filings allege large-scale scraping (including millions of NYT URLs in Common Crawl-derived data), internal projects sharing training datasets (e.g., Project Mango/Taxi and delivery of GPT-3 training data to Microsoft), and Microsoft metrics showing Copilot reduced NYT click-throughs by as much as 93%.

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