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Non -profit Creative municipalitiesWho directed the License Movement which allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing in the AI era. On Wednesday, the organization announced the launch of a new project, CC Signals, which will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused by machines, as in the case of the formation of AI models.
The idea is intended to create a balance between the open nature of the Internet and the demand for data always more to supply AI.
As Creative Commons explains in a blogThe continuous extraction of current data could erode the opening on the Internet and could see entities classify their sites or keep it with pay walls, instead of sharing access to their data.
The CC Signals project, on the other hand, aims to provide a legal and technical solution which would provide a framework for sharing data intended to be used between those which control the data and those which use it to form the AI.
The demand increases for such a tool, because companies confront the modification of their policies and their service conditions to limit the training of AI on their data or explain to what extent they will use user data for purposes linked to AI.
For example, X initially made a change This allowed third parties to train their models on their public data, then later overturned that. Reddit uses its Robots.txt filewhich is intended to say to automated web robots if they can access its site, to prevent robots from scratching your data for AI training. Cloudflare look towards a solution which would also charge robots AI to scratch as tools to confuse them. And open source developers have also built tools To slow down and waste the resources of AI robots which did not respect their “crawl” guidelines.
The CC Signals project rather offers a different solution: a set of tools which offers a range of legal belonging, but which all have an ethical weight, similar to CC licenses which today cover billions of openly dismissed creative works online.
“The CC signals are designed to maintain the municipalities in the AI era,” said Anna Tumadóttir, CEO of Creative Commons, in an ad. “Just as CC licenses have helped build the open web, we believe that CC signals will help shape an open IA ecosystem based on reciprocity.”
The project is just starting to take shape. The first drawings were published on the CC website And GitHub page. The organization actively requests public comments before its plans for an Alpha launch (early test) in November 2025. It will also welcome a series of town hall for comments and questions.
