OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic support a unified AI training opt-out signal; Indian publishers are still not satisfied
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic Back One Opt-Out Signal for AI Training, but Indian Publishers Want More - Elets CIO
On October 30, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic announced support for a unified AI training opt-out signal, allowing websites to declare once in robots.txt whether their content may be used for generative AI training, replacing the previous practice of setting crawler rules such as GPTBot, Google-Extended and ClaudeBot separately for each company. The signal is based on the AI Preferences draft submitted to the IETF and covers only generative training, not affecting models that perform only non-generative tasks or ordinary search indexing. On the Indian publisher side, DNPA alleged in the Delhi High Court that OpenAI scraped copyright-protected Indian news to train ChatGPT, including websites that had already used robots.txt to refuse AI crawlers, while the shared signal does not cover content already absorbed into existing models, and robots.txt itself has no legal force.