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Google Search Advocate who coordinates Google Search Relations efforts and helps publishers and website owners.
Instead of managing separate instructions for every AI developer, website owners will be able to use a shared 'policy token' within robots.txt to set broad preferences across participating AI providers. [...] Other AI providers can handle it similarly, making it easy for website owners to opt out across all providers, or to pick and choose.
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John Mueller, “Supporting a shared AI training control for websites,” Google Search Central Blog, October 30, 2026. Mueller writes that a shared robots.txt policy token lets website owners set AI-training preferences across participating providers and opt out across providers.
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Grant individuals the right to opt out of being included in AI training data
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