[ai-control] Re: AI Processing - a more focused top category?

[Timid Robot Zehta <[e-mail]>]

I expect there are many scripts that download and/or scrape web pages that
are not AI.

To answer your second question, the first example disallows crawling of
/foo and the second example disallows processing of the /foo data that has
been crawled.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM Timid Robot Zehta <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I wonder if replacing "Automated Processing" (all) with "AI Processing"
>> (all-ai) would help to increase the accuracy of the vocabulary without
>> hindering its effectiveness. I think this change might reduce the chance of
>> unintended consequences while keeping the essential function.
>>
>> Current text:
>>
>> 4.1. Automated Processing Category
>>
>> The act of using automated processing on one or more assets to analyze
>> text and data in order to generate information which includes but is not
>> limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
>>
>> The use of assets for automated processing encompasses all the
>> subsequent categories.
>>
>>
>> Proposed text:
>>
>> 4.1. AI Processing Category
>>
>> The act of using AI processing on one or more assets to analyze text and
>> data in order to generate information which includes but is not limited to
>> patterns, trends and correlations.
>>
>> The use of assets for AI processing encompasses all the subsequent
>> categories.
>>
>>
> Given the very broad definition of AI, as noted in my previous email [0],
> I'm not sure what the practical difference would be of this change. Can you
> provide an example of some form of processing which you think would be
> "automated processing" but not "AI processing" using the definition of AI
> in Section 2? I see the addition of the term "sufficient complexity" but
> it's entirely unclear to me what that means. How am I to know whether a
> system is of sufficient complexity?
>
> With that said, I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this category at
> all. Specifically, how is:
>
> User-Agent: *
> disallow: /foo
>
> different from:
>
> User-Agent: *
> Content-Usage: /foo all=n
>
> -Ekr
>
> [0]
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ai-control/AmFQ2GTFAJwqNKZvtJIMfuRt0jI/
>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> -Timid Robot
>>
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