EU Court Adviser Proposes Three Conditions for AI Training in Google Case
TLDR
An EU court adviser in a Google case has backed AI training on three conditions: honouring robots.txt opt-outs, skipping pirate sites, and proving anti-memorisation steps.
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PPC Land reports that an EU court adviser in a case involving Google has backed AI training subject to three conditions: developers would need to honour robots.txt opt-outs, avoid pirate sites, and demonstrate anti-memorisation measures. The piece also raises the open question of whether the Court of Justice will rule on training at all.
How we got here: earlier coverage
- Nov 1Google, Microsoft and OpenAI Plan to Honor a Shared robots.txt Line for Opting Out of AI Training
A shared robots.txt line could let sites opt out of AI training with several providers at once, but the companies involved are handling it differently.
- Oct 31Sites Using NoArchive or NoCache Lose Microsoft's AI Opt-Out on March 1, 2027 Unless They Switch
Sites using NoArchive or NoCache will lose their Microsoft AI opt-out on March 1, 2027 unless they switch, and Google's token will also cover Gemini grounding.
- Oct 31Google and Bing will honor a shared robots.txt signal to block AI training
Google and Bing said they will honor a shared robots.txt signal that blocks AI training, and a study put AI Overviews click-through at 0.9%.
- Sep 15Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training feature allows sites to block AI scrapers without excluding Googlebot
Cloudflare introduced a Disallow AI Training option that blocks AI crawlers from training data while preserving access for Googlebot and other search engines.