{"id":173036,"date":"2023-09-29T07:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T12:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/your-website-can-now-opt-out-of-training-googles-bard-and-future-ais"},"modified":"2023-09-29T07:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T12:26:01","slug":"your-website-can-now-opt-out-of-training-googles-bard-and-future-ais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/your-website-can-now-opt-out-of-training-googles-bard-and-future-ais","title":{"rendered":"Your website can now opt out of training Google\u2019s Bard and future AIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-website-can-now-opt-out-of-training-googles-bard-and-future-ais2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large language models are trained on all kinds of data, most of which it seems was collected without anyone\u2019s knowledge or consent. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/ai\/an-update-on-web-publisher-controls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Now you have a choice<\/a> whether to allow your web content to be used by Google as material to feed its Bard AI and any future models it decides to make.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as simple as disallowing \u201cUser-Agent: Google-Extended\u201d in your site\u2019s robots.txt, the document that tells automated web crawlers what content they\u2019re able to access.<\/p>\n<p>Though Google claims to develop its AI in an ethical, inclusive way, the use case of AI training is meaningfully different than indexing the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large language models are trained on all kinds of data, most of which it seems was collected without anyone\u2019s knowledge or consent. Now you have a choice whether to allow your web content to be used by Google as material to feed its Bard AI and any future models it decides to make. It\u2019s as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}