As a software engineer, I support ai.txt as a simple, respectful way to express AI usage preferences. For wide adoption, it must be easy to implement, enforceable, and fine-grained to allow creators to distinguish between indexing, caching, and training use cases. I also recommend establishing a shared standard registry for AI user-agents and encouraging bots to self-identify with verifiable headers. Aaron Muuo. On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM Benson Muite via KICTANet < [email protected]> wrote:

There is an IETF process underway to standardize a machine readable way to indicate permissions associated with how online content can be used for AI training. The aim is to find an ai.txt specification analogous to the robot.txt specification put on many websites. For more information see: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/aicontrolws/materials/

Feedback is sought.

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