Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt. It lets a website keep its content out of generative AI training with a single rule. Today, a site that wants to say no has to write separate rules for each company’s crawler. The shared signal comes from an IETF draft […] This story continues at The Next Web