A principled method to evolving selection and management for net content material

At Google I/O, we announced new AI-driven merchandise and experiments that construct on our years of analysis within the area. We additionally spoke about Google’s dedication to creating AI responsibly in ways in which maximize the constructive advantages to society whereas addressing the challenges, guided by our AI Principles and consistent with our customer privacy commitment.

We imagine everybody advantages from a vibrant content material ecosystem. Key to that’s net publishers having selection and management over their content material, and alternatives to derive worth from taking part within the net ecosystem. Nevertheless, we acknowledge that present net writer controls had been developed earlier than new AI and analysis use circumstances.

As new applied sciences emerge, they current alternatives for the online group to evolve requirements and protocols that assist the online’s future growth. One such community-developed net commonplace, robots.txt, was created practically 30 years in the past and has confirmed to be a easy and clear means for net publishers to regulate how search engines like google and yahoo crawl their content material. We imagine it’s time for the online and AI communities to discover extra machine-readable means for net writer selection and management for rising AI and analysis use circumstances.

At the moment, we’re kicking off a public dialogue, inviting members of the online and AI communities to weigh in on approaches to complementary protocols. We’d like a broad vary of voices from throughout net publishers, civil society, academia and extra fields from all over the world to hitch the dialogue, and we might be convening these excited about taking part over the approaching months.

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