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December 13, 2025
The Creative Commons says pay-to-crawl shouldn’t be a website’s default setting.
In a blog post, the nonprofit says it has “significant reservations” about systems that require AI companies to pay to train on their content, stating that they “could become new concentrations of power, with the ability to dictate how we experience the web.”
TL;DR
- Creative Commons has reservations about pay-to-crawl systems for AI training.
- These systems could lead to new concentrations of power and control over web experience.
- Creative Commons partnered with RSL Collective to allow creators to collect contributions from AI companies.
- The goal is to infuse reciprocity into AI adoption standards.
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