"Enter the Real Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard, a new tech-based licensing solution for the "AI-first internet," as RSL puts it. It's backed by Reddit, Yahoo!, Ziff Davis (PCMag's parent company), People, Medium, WikiHow, Quora, Adweek, and more."
"The RSL Standard would allow websites and individual creators to set terms for using their content-from written work to videos, web pages, images, and datasets-before ChatGPT, Claude, Google, or any other AI system surfaces it in chatbot responses."
"Today, there's really no way to say for a website to say, 'Hey, I want Google AI Overviews off [for my content] unless you can compensate me for that lost revenue, which is not unreasonable," says Eckart Walther, co-founder of the RSL Standard and one of the original creators of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), which RSL is based on."
AI-driven chatbots ingest and repurpose web content without a standardized model to compensate original sources, risking reduced information availability. The Real Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard is a technical licensing framework intended for the AI-first internet that lets websites and individual creators set terms for using their work, including articles, images, videos, and datasets. Major publishers and platforms back RSL and creators can join the free RSL Collective to register terms. Co-founders Eckart Walther and Doug Leeds are pursuing adoption by AI companies, but no AI firms have agreed to honor RSL yet.
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