AI Opt-Out: Not A Lock

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A website's robots.txt file gives automated visitors instructions. Think of a sign, not a locked door.

The proposed shared AI training opt-out tells participating companies not to use specified content to teach their models. It does not stop bots fetching pages.

Google's 30 October announcement backs the shared approach alongside Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic. TechRadar reports that none fully honours it yet: Anthropic has started implementation, OpenAI says the coming months, Microsoft says 1 February 2027, and Google targets 2027.

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This is an individual draft, not an approved standard. It cannot undo earlier collection.

There is also a Google catch: without a separate Google-Extended instruction, Google plans to treat the shared opt-out as blocking that control too. Google-Extended also covers using pages to support Gemini answers, so opting out could cost citations and clicks.

The useful part is simpler training instructions across participating companies. Keep existing crawler blocks if your goal is stopping access.

A preference is not a force field.

Source: TechRadar; Google Search Central.

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