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Re: [ai-control] Considerations for AI Opt-Out

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 23 April 2024 00:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ai-control] Considerations for AI Opt-Out
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Hi Mike,

It's a good question -- I think it points out the need to be nuanced in whatever standard emerges, but also that the format needs to be extensible and flexible enough to accommodate changes to uses over time, since "AI" is still very young.

Cheers,


> On 23 Apr 2024, at 04:45, Michael Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io> wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> Thanks for this. Very well thought out.
> Question, as we see more and more RAG focused approaches that blur the line between traditional search (which in theory benefits crawled sites) and generative AI crawling just for training content, how does that play out, if at all from your perspective?  
> 
> Mike Prorock
> Founder
> https://mesur.io/
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> I've written down a few thoughts about how appropriate it is to use robots.txt for opt-out:
>   https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/21/ai-control
> 
> I'd be interested to hear what people think.
> 
> Cheers,
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