OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal for AI training preferences

OpenAI says it will honor a shared robots.txt signal that website operators can use to state their preferences for AI training. The robots.txt file is a short text file on a website that tells automated crawlers which pages they may visit.

For a store owner, this could mean a standard way to tell participating AI companies whether your product pages, descriptions and photos may be used to train their models.

Nothing to do yet. The item does not name the signal or list which providers take part, so check OpenAI's documentation before changing your robots.txt file. If you are unsure how to edit that file, ask your website platform.