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Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Neither the article nor the RSL website makes clear how pricing or payment works, which seems like a huge miss. It’s not obvious if a publisher can price-differentiate among content, or even choose their own prices at all.

RSL makes an analogy:

Collective licensing organizations like ASCAP and BMI have long helped musicians get paid fairly by working together and pooling rights into a single, indispensable offering.

I’d like to get excited about this because AI companies suck, but if the best example they have is that ASCAP helps “musicians get paid fairly” I’m afraid this isn’t a solution that most content creators will celebrate.