Policy & safety · 31 October 2026
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic Adopt Policy Token to Let Publishers Opt Out of AI Scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will adopt a new IETF‑proposed “policy token” that publishers can place in robots.txt to opt out of AI training crawlers. The token lets sites apply a single preference across multiple AI companies instead of signaling each individually.
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Add support for the shared policy token in your publishing platform to honour AI‑crawler opt‑out preferences.
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