AI regulation

Laws like the EU AI Act that push transparency, copyright, and training disclosures. They change crawler politics more than your H1.

Publishers negotiate. Opt-outs proliferate. GEO people inherit the leftover permissions.

Don’t wait for regulation to “fix” Reddit citations.

Examples

A publisher blocks training bots after a legal review. Their ChatGPT memory ages out. Expected.

Deals where labs pay (or get blocked) for using professional content. Changes which domains appear in answers.

robots.txt is the fetch permission file at the site root. AI crawlers read it too. Misconfigure it and you vanish from training, search, or both.

Legal/technical flags that reserve text-and-data-mining rights. EU-flavored. Partial crawler support.

Does the EU AI Act rank me higher? +

No. It may change what models are allowed to train on. That’s a corpus shift, not a ranking tool.

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