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Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. | "Really Simple Licensing" makes it easier for creators to get paid for AI scraping.
“Really Simple Licensing” makes it easier for creators to get paid for AI scraping.
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 scrape content without permission or compensation. Based on the "Really Simple Syndication" (RSS) standard, RSL terms can be applied to protect any digital content, including webpages, books, videos, and datasets. Leeds told Ars that the idea to use the RSS "playbook" to roll out the RSL standard arose after he invited Walther to speak to University of California, Berkeley students at the end of last year.
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