One setting may soon tell big AI companies to skip your site
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic say they will honor a proposed shared signal that lets website owners set AI training preferences once, instead of company by company.
If your portfolio or menu lives on a website, this could become the simplest way to say whether your work is used to train AI. The signal would sit in robots.txt, a plain text file telling automated visitors what they may read. It is still a proposal before a standards group, so nothing changes yet.
Worth a quick check if your own site hosts photos, designs or writing you care about. It depends on companies choosing to honor it, so treat it as a clear request rather than a lock.
Your moveCheck whether your website builder lets you view or edit robots.txt, so you know where to look once the standard is final.
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