The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic have committed to honoring a shared "policy token" signal, proposed by Anthropic's Kevin Kelley through the IETF, that lets publishers set AI training preferences once in robots.txt rather than separately for each company.
Why it ranked
No. 39 of 59 with a score of 0.60. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.77) and audience breadth (0.72), lowest on technical depth (0.43). Placed No. 39, No. 33 by score alone: the 15th AI & machine learning story of the day (−0.080). The placement terms move stories; they are not part of the score.
- AI judgeJudge 2claude-haiku-5-5
- Industry-wide AI crawler opt-out standard announced by major AI firms; newsworthy for builders and policy-relevant, but a news report with limited technical depth and mostly announced intentions.
- AI judgeJudge 3gpt-5.6-luna
- Reports major AI companies’ planned support for a shared robots.txt policy signal, relevant to publishers, model training, search, and AI grounding. It is timely and broadly consequential, but offers limited technical detail and relies mainly on reported statements.
Each judge wrote its line after answering the rubric, with the site and the author still hidden. Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.60total under rubric v2.3
- Significance0.61
- Reader interest0.68
- Audience breadth0.72
- Practical relevance0.64
- Substantiated0.50
- Technical depth0.43
- New information0.77
- Counts against: Promotional0.10
- Counts against: Overclaim0.23
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SignificanceHow much does this change what people in tech know or can do? | 0.71 | 0.50 | 0.62 | 0.61 | 0.21 | +0.24 | +0.146 |
| Reader interestWould a well-informed senior engineer or tech founder want to read this today, and likely pass it on? | 0.61 | 0.60 | 0.82 | 0.68 | 0.22 | +0.26 | +0.176 |
| Audience breadthHow many people who build technology does it concern? | 0.79 | 0.60 | 0.78 | 0.72 | 0.19 | +0.13 | +0.094 |
| Practical relevanceHow useful is it to someone who builds software or tech products? | 0.67 | 0.60 | 0.64 | 0.64 | 0.07 | +0.22 | +0.140 |
| SubstantiatedHow well is it backed? Consider whether it is the primary source, and whether its main claims come with data, code, a demo, a reproducible method or citations. | 0.49 | 0.45 | 0.57 | 0.50 | 0.12 | +0.05 | +0.025 |
| Technical depthHow technically substantive is it? | 0.60 | 0.35 | 0.34 | 0.43 | 0.26 | +0.05 | +0.022 |
| New informationDoes it contain information absent from the stories covered in the last 7 days (list provided)? | 0.80 | 0.70 | 0.82 | 0.77 | 0.12 | +0.05 | +0.039 |
| PromotionalIs it mainly marketing with little substance (a press release, ad or sponsored post with no real information)? A launch post that carries real news is not promotional. | 0.12 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.04 | −0.19 | −0.019 |
| OverclaimDo the headline or conclusions claim more than the body supports? | 0.38 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.23 | 0.26 | −0.11 | −0.026 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.596 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.597 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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