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<p>How to use Really Simple Licensing (RSL) to block all AI crawlers</p><p><a href="https://rslstandard.org" rel="nofollow">RSL</a> is a new initiative by a group of big internet publishers that seeks to define the conditions under which AI crawlers can harvest their content. <a href="https://rslstandard.org/guide/what-is-rsl" rel="nofollow">Their guide</a> describes the various ways the content can be made available, including for free or a paid royalty but only by digging deeper into their reference material was I able to figure out how to prohibit all usage.</p><p>Your robots.txt needs to link to a XML file, like this:</p><p>License: <a href="https://your-domain.tld/rsl.xml" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>your-domain.tld/rsl.xml</a></p><p>Then in that file you want this:</p><p><rsl xmlns="<a href="https://rslstandard.org/rsl" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>rslstandard.org/rsl</a>"> <content url="/" server="<a href="https://rslcollective.org/api" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>rslcollective.org/api</a>"> <license> <prohibits type="usage">all</prohibits> </license> </content></rsl></p><p>That’s it.</p><p>If you want to be more liberal you could change the <prohibits> line to </p><p><permits type="usage">search</permits></p><p>That will let them use the content for search, which is probably quite similar to what traditional search engines do. <a href="https://rslstandard.org/rsl#element-permits" rel="nofollow">More details in their reference docs</a>.</p><p>Optionally to dispel any plausible deniability you can also add a link to rsl.xml as a Link header in every HTTP response.</p><p>Link: <<a href="https://example.com/rsl.xml" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>example.com/rsl.xml</a>>; rel="license"; type="application/rsl+xml"</p><p>It’s still too early to say whether AI crawlers will respect the terms of the license any publishers specify, it’ll probably take a court case or two to sort that out. </p><p><a href="https://crust.piefed.social/rsl.xml" rel="nofollow">PieFed has added RSL</a> to it’s code just now. Instance admins who wish to disable RSL can set the ALLOW_AI_CRAWLERS environment variable to anything.</p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/licensing/" rel="tag">#licensing</a> <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#piefed</a> <a href="/tags/rsl/" rel="tag">#rsl</a></p>
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