AI preferences proposed standards

[mavit]

A new DisallowAITraining rule has been proposed by Microsoft. Is it worth including something like the following in robots.txt?

User-Agent: *
DisallowAITraining: /

[glyn]

Thanks for raising this issue. It may be premature to support this right now. The internet draft (I-D) expires on 24 April 2025. Let's keep this issue open to track any progress of the I-D.

[krobbi]

There is a new version of this draft (01) that appears to suggest multiple AllowAI* and DisallowAI* rules for different use cases, but no names have been defined yet. The associated meta tags have also changed to AI* and noAI*. The draft now expires on 6 October 2025.

[mavit]

See also https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vaughan-aipref-vocab/, which is a more granular proposal.

[glyn]

I'm going to re-title and convert this issue into a discussion until there is something actionable. That will keep the issue list tidy and encourage more, ahem, discussion of this topic.