Millions of websites – including Sky News, The Associated Press and Buzzfeed – will now be able to block artificial intelligence (AI) bots from accessing their content without permission.
The new system is being rolled out by internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare, which hosts around a fifth of the internet.
Eventually, sites will be able to ask for payment from AI firms in return for having their content scraped.
Many prominent writers, artists, musicians and actors have accused AI firms of training systems on their work without permission or payment.
Källa: Millions of websites to get ’game-changing’ AI bot blocker