Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers

Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting
Most big AI providers scrape the open web, hoovering up content to improve their chatbots, which then compete with publishers for the attention of internet users. However, more AI orgs might have to pay up soon, because the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) spec has reached version 1.0, providing guidance on how to set machine-readable rules for crawlers.…