Creative Commons announces tentative support for AI ‘pay-to-crawl’ systems
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Creative Commons announced cautious support for "pay-to-crawl" systems that would automatically charge AI bots for scraping website content, addressing publishers' revenue losses from AI reducing search traffic. The nonprofit believes this technology could help sustain content creation while keeping information publicly accessible, though it warned against making such systems default settings.
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