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Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping

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Applebot-Extended is an extension to Apple ’s web-crawling bot that lets website owners tell Apple not to use their data for AI training.

Facebook, Instagram , Craigslist , Tumblr , The New York Times , The Atlantic , Vox Media , the USA Today network, and Condé Nast are among the many organizations opting to exclude their data from Apple 's AI training tool.

The cold reception reflects a significant shift in both the perception and use of the robotic crawlers that have trawled the web for decades .

Two CEOs from major media companies directly decide which bots to block.

Some outlets block AI scraping tools because they do not currently have partnerships with their owners.

The New York Times , which is suing OpenAI over copyright infringement, is critical of the opt-out nature of Applebot-Extended and its ilk.