India, October 31, 2026: AI giants promise publishers new way to block some scraping. The Hindu reported the development.

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The announcement comes as publishers are facing a surge in bots that scrape their articles to feed AI models [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS 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 artificial intelligence (AI) models, amid growing criticisms and legal battles from news publishers.

Publishers currently have to implement multiple blocking commands for every bot that crawls the web to collect data , but the new proposed solution will allow them to enter a single, standardized instruction that's recognized and honored by any AI company that adopts the protocol.

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