Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to ...

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.

AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

The internet's new standard, RSL, is a clever fix for a complex problem, and it just might give human creators a fighting chance in the AI economy.
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Reddit, Ziff Davis Back New Idea to Stop AI From Ruining the Internet

The RSL Standard allows publishers and creators to set a price for an AI to surface their content in a chatbot response—but AI companies have yet to buy in.

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for ...

Participating brands include plenty of internet old-schoolers. Reddit, People Inc., Yahoo, Internet Brands, Ziff Davis, wikiHow, O'Reilly Media, Medium, The Daily Beast, Miso.AI, Raptive, Ranker and ...
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A system called 'RSL' will be developed to notify terms of use and fees for scraping for AI ...

Developing AI requires massive amounts of data, and AI development companies use automated bots (scrapers) to collect all kinds of information available on the ...