Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions (opens in new tab)

I don't see how this solves the problem of misbehaving companies that want to train LLMs. Isn't this just going to fall back to copyright laws if a company is found to be breaching the terms as there's no signed contract etc.

Here is the actual RSL website [0] and announcement [1]

"RSL is an open, decentralized protocol, based on the widely adopted RSS (Really Simple Syndication) standard, that scales to millions of websites and can be applied to any digital content, including web pages, books, videos, and datasets."

[0] https://rslcollective.org/ [1] https://rslstandard.org/press/rsl-standard

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