2. Workshop Scope and Discussion

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The workshop began by surveying the state of AI control. Publishers currently express preferences through declarative mechanisms such as terms of service, embedded metadata, and robots.txt [RFC9309], as well as active mechanisms such as paywalls and selective crawler blocking by IP address or User-Agent.

Participants disagreed about the overall implications of AI opt-out. Research presented at the workshop [DECLINE] indicated that such controls are becoming more common, reducing data available for AI training and inference-time use. Other participants emphasized a need to opt out because of effects on control over content, customer relationships, and whole industries.

There was quick agreement that the current state of AI opt-out harms both perspectives. One participant summarized the situation as "no one is better off". Much of the dysfunction was attributed to lack of coordination and standards.