Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem

The non -profit Creative Creative, which led the licensing movement that allows creators to share their work while preserving copyright, is now for the era of artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, the Foundation announced the launch of a new project, CC, which will allow data collections holders in detail how to reuse their content or cannot be reused by machines, as in the case of training artificial intelligence models.

The idea aims to create a balance between the open nature of the Internet and demand more data to provide artificial intelligence.

Creative Commons also explains in a blog post, the ongoing continuous data extraction may lead to openness online openness and can see entities roaming on their sites or guarding walls, instead of sharing access to their data.

The CC Signals project, on the other hand, aims to provide a legal and technical solution that would provide a framework for the participation of the data set for its use among those who control data and those who use it to train artificial intelligence.

The demand for such a tool increases, as companies wrestle with changing their policies and conditions of service either to reduce artificial intelligence training on their data or explain to what extent they will use user data for AI’s purposes.

For example, X initially changed the allowing for third parties to train its models on its general data, then the opposite later. Robots.txt, which aims to inform automatic web crawls, uses whether they can access its location, to restrict robots to scrape their data to train artificial intelligence. Cloudflare is looking for a solution that will receive the Robots of Amnesty International forced, as well as tools to confuse them. Open sources also built tools to slow and waste the resources of artificial intelligence crawls who did not respect the “non -crawling” directives.

Instead, the CC Signals project proposes a different solution: a set of tools that provide a range of legal enforcement, but all have moral weight, similar to CC licenses that today cover billions of creative work openly licensed via the Internet.

“CC signals are designed to maintain the public in the era of artificial intelligence,” said Anna Tumaddoter, CEO of Creative Commons. “As CC licenses have helped build an open web network, we believe that CC signals will help form an open ecosystem of artificial intelligence based on reciprocity.”

The project has now started only in crystallization. Early designs have been published on CC and GitHub. The organization is actively seeking to obtain general reactions before its plans to launch alpha (early test) in November 2025. It will also host a series of city halls for comments and questions.