Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and More adopts a new criterion for licensing for compensation for scrapping artificial intelligence

with Web publisher in the crisisThey allow them a new open standard to set the basic rules of artificial intelligence. (Or at least it will Trying.) The new simple license standard (RSL) Create Conditions for which participants expect artificial intelligence companies to adhere to. Although enforcement is an open question, it cannot hurt some heavy hunger. Among other things, the menu includes Reddit, Yahoo (Engadget’s Propare), Medium and People Inc.

RSL adds the licensing conditions to the Robots.TXT protocol, the simple file that provides web crawls. The subsidized licensing options include free, support, subscription and payment for every demise and conference for the conference. (The latter means that artificial intelligence companies pay only publishers when using content to create a response.)

Its launch alongside the standard is a new non -profit management, which is the RSLCRCTIVE. He sees himself as equivalent to non -profit organizations such as ASCAP and BMI, which manages the music industry rights. The new group says that the standard can “create fair market prices and enhance negotiating influence for all publishers.”

Participating brands include many old schools on the Internet. Reddit, People Inc. Yahoo, Internet Brands, Zif Davis, Wikihow, O’Railly Media, Medium, The Daily Beast, MISO.AI, Raptive, Ranker and Evolve Media are all on board. former Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds and RSS Eckart Waltus leads the group.

“The RL criterion and platforms are given a clear and developed method for developing the conditions of licensing in the era of artificial intelligence,” said Steve Hoffman, CEO of Reddit in a press statement. “RSL Collective provides a way to do this together. Reddit is supported as important steps towards open web protection and societies that make them thrive.” (It should be noted Reddit has licensing deals with Openai and Google))

It is not clear whether artificial intelligence companies will honor the standard. After all, it was simply known Ignore Robots.txt. But the group believes that its conditions will be legally implemented.

In an interview with Art TechnicaLeeds Duplicate To modern anthropology $ 1.5 billion settlement“There are real money at stake” for artificial intelligence companies that are not trained “legally.” (However, this settlement in the air after a The judge refused to do so.) Leeds He said freedom The collective nature of the standard can also help spread legal costs, making the challenges facing violations more feasible.

For technical enforcement, the RSL standard cannot prevent robots on its own. Therefore, the group cooperates with Cloud Fastly, which can work as a kind of gatekeeper. (Perhaps Cloudflare, who recently I launched the payment system for all crawlsIn the end he can also play a role.

LEDS suggested Ars There are incentives for artificial intelligence companies, too. Financially, it may be more simple to them Editing individual licensing deals. It can prevent a problem with the content of artificial intelligence: Use multiple sources to answer to avoid using also Many of any one. If the content is legally licensed, then the application of artificial intelligence can simply use the best source, which provides the user with a high -quality answer and reduces the risk of hallucinations.

He also pointed to complaints from artificial intelligence companies that there is no effective way to license content at the web level. “We have listened to them, and what we heard say that … we need a new protocol,” said LIDS Art Technica. “With the RSL standard, AI gets a” developed method to get all the content “they want, with an incentive that they will just have to pay the best content that the models actually indicate.