"Google Empowers Publishers with Opt-Out Switch for AI Training Data"

Google has introduced a new tool called Google-Extended, which allows website publishers to opt out of having their data used to train the company's AI models while still being accessible through Google Search. The tool, available through robots.txt, enables publishers to control access to their content and manage whether their sites contribute to improving AI applications. This move comes as some sites have already blocked OpenAI's web crawler to prevent data scraping for AI training, and concerns have arisen about blocking Google's crawlers without affecting search indexing.