AI giants promise publishers new way to block some scraping

Four major tech companies agreed to support a single instruction that blocks websites from AI training. Scraping remains the default setting, and opting out can lower a site's presence in AI products. Legal teams and newsrooms face a direct trade-off between protecting their work and keeping their visibility.

Summary written by AI Business Lens with an AI model from the article at techxplore.com. It is not the article, and the publisher has not reviewed it. For publishers.

Read the original at techxplore.com   Generate teaching or study materials

Instructors get discussion guides, assignments, and mini-cases. Students and readers get a plain summary, points to raise, an exercise, and a self-check. All built from the full article. A free account saves stories and gives you three generations. Stories stay on the brief for 14 days. After that this page keeps the link to the original.

More in Journalism

• AI software clones are coming for big-name companies like AdobeEngadget · November 1, 2026
• Disquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposalThe Guardian — Technology · November 1, 2026
• AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist saysThe Guardian — Technology · November 1, 2026
• The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scrapingThe Verge · October 31, 2026
• UK probes Meta over 'exploitative' new terms for mediaPhys.org — Technology · October 31, 2026