IETF building tech to tell AI scrapers what authors want

The Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a group it hopes will create a standard that lets content creators tell AI developers whether it’s OK to use their work.

Named the AI Preferences Working Group (AIPREF), the group has been asked develop two things:

• A common vocabulary to express authors’ and publishers’ preferences regarding use of their content for AI training and related tasks;
• Means of attaching that vocabulary to content on the Internet, either by embedding it in the…