A recent report from Wired reveals that numerous leading news organizations and social media platforms have opted out of Apple’s AI training data collection via website scraping.For years, Apple has employed Applebot to refine Siri and enhance Spotlight suggestions, and it has recently extended this functionality to train Apple Intelligence.The company recently introduced a second web crawler, Applebot-Extended, just under three months ago. This new tool allows web publishers to opt out of contributing their site content to the training of Apple’s generative AI models, which support products like Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools.The opt-out process is straightforward, managed through a publicly accessible robots.txt file, making it easy to identify sites that have chosen this option. Wired’s investigation found that several prominent news and social media platforms, including The New York Times, Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, Financial Times, The Atlantic, USA Today, and Conde Nast, have opted out of Apple’s training scheme.Wired’s findings suggest that around 6% to 7% of high-traffic websites are currently blocking Applebot, indicating that some companies either find Apple’s training methods acceptable or are unaware of the opt-out option.Moreover, recent analysis by data journalist Ben Welsh revealed that more than a quarter of the surveyed news sites—294 out of 1,167 primarily English-language, U.S.-based publications—are blocking Applebot-Extended.The material has been provided by InstaForex Company – www.instaforex.com
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