Announced today, the CC Signals proposal builds on the IETF draft Vocabulary For Expressing AI Usage Preferences. The idea is that you can declare "ai:no" or "genai:no" in your headers or robots exclusion file, as defined in the draft, and then add a Creative Commons 'exception' to the rule, for example, if the user gives credit or "monetary or in-kind support" for the use. It's worth noting that there's no 'non-commercial' exception defined. Instead, it flips the concept of 'sharing' on its head and defines it as transactional; you can use the content for AI only if you 'give back'. Unlike traditional Creative Commons licenses, it is not backed by law; that's why it's only a 'preference'. It allows users to pretend there's some law against AI use of the content, and then create ways to allow use in spite of that. It represents it as a social contract, but it's not a social contract. Anyhow, there's a White Paper describing the initiative, a discussion board to talk about it, and an implementation guide on GitHub. Also, the webinar video and the slides that were shown. Right now only the 'credit' signal is implemented (as: ai=n;exceptions=cc-cr ) but let me suggest the non-commercial signal (we'll call it the "Downes exception") as exceptions=cc-nc and the 'contribution' exception as exceptions=cc-payMEpayME.
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