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Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences

Context: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared robots.txt rule that keeps a site's content out of generative AI training.

From OpenAI: OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

Source
OpenAI (openai.com)
Published
First seen here
Edition
Saturday, October 31, 2026, ranked 14
Status
The company itself announced or confirmed this.
Why it’s here
One opt-out signal backed by Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic; covered by three outlets.
Topics
AI, Openai, Open source
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