Google just announced it’s giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company’s AI models while remaining accessible through Google Search.
many sites have moved to block the web crawler that OpenAI uses to scrape data and train ChatGPT. However, there have been concerns over how to block out Google. After all, websites can’t close off Google’s crawlers completely, or else they won’t get indexed in search.
This doesn’t change anything. They’re still violating copyright law if they scrape any data.
For search results, nobody really cared, because it was useful to everyone. Now they’re reprocessing it into output and competing with the original sites. That’s a big no-no.