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IETF setting standards for AI preferences

by Mithriil on 3/22/25, 1:30 PM with 12 comments

• by jsheard on 3/22/25, 4:28 PM

  I appreciate the effort, but without any legal backing these signals are just going to be ignored like robots.txt. Hell even if they were legally binding they'd probably still be ignored if scrapers thought they could obfuscate the paper trail enough to get away with it.

• by ddtaylor on 3/22/25, 7:51 PM

  Asking people to read your content with a specific purpose or intent has traditionally not been very successful or useful. I understand people are frustrated with the knowledge transfer, but if the goal was to increase the reach of your ideas, it's being accomplished.

  AI being involved changes the scale and scope, but it doesn't change the fundamentals. China and India were already imitating and cloning everything for their markets and for ours.

  We have had virtually zero success enforcing patent, copyright and barely even the lowest bar trademark enforcement. There may not be any framework for this kind of enforcement that I want to see that would be effective, but I am open to ideas that don't involve government overreach etc.

• by TZubiri on 3/23/25, 9:05 PM

  The ietf should be concerned with user concerns. If they make standards about AI preferences it should be around memory and language and stuff like that, not meddling with legal matters that are outside of their scope and expertise.

• by adrian_mrd on 3/22/25, 8:08 PM

  Does anyone know whether there any licences or licence derivatives - like the various flavors of Creative Commons - that currently restrict usage by AI LLMs?

• by elitepleb on 3/22/25, 5:05 PM

  DNT: AI