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OpenAI says it will honor a shared AI-training preference signal
OpenAI announced that it intends to honor a shared robots.txt signal for publishers and site owners to express preferences about foundational AI training across participating providers. Implementation is planned for the coming months; existing crawler controls continue. This is a voluntary provider commitment, not a law or an already deployed control.
Primary source · October 30, 2026
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