Definition
This is a proposed federal rule requiring companies that use automated bots to scrape the public internet for AI training data to clearly disclose that activity, with the FTC enforcing compliance. It targets the widespread but often hidden practice of harvesting website content to train AI models without notice.
Why it matters
Any company running a website should anticipate new disclosure obligations around who is scraping their content and for what purpose, and AI developers should expect new compliance overhead for how they source training data.