OpenAI announced last week it’s developing a tool called Media Manager, which will enable publishers and other content owners to flag copyrighted material to the company and to specify whether or not they want their work to be used to help train its models.
“We believe AI systems should benefit and respect the choices of creators and content owners,” a post announcing Media Manager read, adding, “We’re continually improving our industry-leading systems to reflect content owner preferences, and are dedicated to building products and business models to fuel vibrant ecosystems for creators and publishers.”
Last year OpenAI said publishers could use robots.txt files on their websites to express preferences about the use of their content to train AI. The company says it “takes these signals into account” when training new models, (although it hasn’t explicitly stated it honors those requests.)