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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic to adopt a shared AI-scraping opt-out token

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic said they will adopt a new standard that lets publishers opt out of AI scraping, as Search Engine Roundtable reported. A shared "policy token" lets publishers apply AI training preferences across multiple AI companies instead of setting them individually.

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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic to adopt a shared AI-scraping opt-out token: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic said they will adopt a new standard that lets publishers opt out of AI scraping, as Search Engine Roundtable reported. A shared "policy token" lets publishers apply AI training preferences across multiple AI companies instead of setting them individually.

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