AI firms back shared publisher opt-out standard

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic say they will adopt a shared “policy token” standard that publishers can use to opt out of having their content scraped for AI. The control would let publishers set preferences across multiple AI companies rather than configuring them individually, amid a surge in bots scraping articles to feed AI models.

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