AI giants promise publishers new way to block some scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic pledged on Friday to give media outlets and other websites a single way to prevent their content from being scraped to train smart software (AI) models, amid growing criticisms and legal battles from news publishers.
Key points
- • AI giants promise publishers new way to block some scraping share this!
- • The announcement comes as publishers are facing a surge in bots that scrape their articles to feed AI models.
- • Meanwhile, internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare has blocked AI bots by default on new customer sites since July 2025, and a standard called Really Simple Licensing already allows publishers to charge bots that visit their pages.
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