Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”

>>Jeanne+(OP)
Your HTML already has semantic meta elements like author and description you should be populating with info like that: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduc...

>>qbasic+Ol
How do I add a semantic definition in an HTML tag to a JPEG, or MP4, or WAV, or any non HTML format? HTML tags fix HTML, not other formats.

>>burnte+O51
JPEG has EXIF, MP3 has ID3 tags, MP4 has ilst, MKV has Tags, etc. We don't need xkcd/927 for these other formats that already have standard metadata mechanisms.

>>cornst+xe1
Yeah, and if you make it that complex to extract consent you won't get any. Think one step ahead maybe. One switch, one thing to parse.

>>Rambli+6r1
Robots.txt is where you tell crawlers (AI or otherwise) what should and shouldn't be read on your site.

Metadata like in tags, HTML meta tags, etc. is where you describe the content so meaning can be extracted from it by machines and automated processing.

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