SPIRITUAL AI

Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data   Now the Google-Extended flag in robots.txt can tell Google’s crawlers to include a site in search without using it to train new AI models like the ones powering Bard. Illustration: The Verge Google just announced  it’s giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company’s AI models while remaining accessible through Google Search. The new tool, called  Google-Extended , allows sites to continue to get scraped and indexed by crawlers like the  Googlebot  while avoiding having their data used to train AI models as they develop over time. The company says Google-Extended will let publishers “manage whether their sites help improve  Bard  and  Vertex AI  generative APIs,” adding that web publishers can use the toggle to “control access to content on a site.” Google confirmed in July that it’s training its  AI chatbot, Bard, on publicly available data