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Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping
The group is looking to music royalty nonprofits for inspiration.
"The RSL Standard gives publishers and platforms a clear, scalable way to set licensing terms in the AI era,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wrote in a press release. In an interview with Ars Technica, Leeds pointed to Anthropic's recent$1.5 billion settlement, suggesting "there's real money at stake" for AI companies that don't train "legitimately." Leeds told The Verge that the standard's collective nature could also help spread legal costs, making challenges to violations more feasible.
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