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RSL Media Launches Human Consent Standard for AI Use of Likeness and Creative Works

The group plans a June registry to turn personal permissions into signals AI systems can read.

Overview

  • RSL Media, launched Tuesday as a public-benefit nonprofit, introduced a framework to let people control how AI uses their identity and creative work with support from prominent actors and artist groups.
  • The standard uses traffic-light choices that label use as allowed, allowed with terms, or prohibited for likenesses, voices, characters, designs, and other rights.
  • AI systems can find a person’s declaration via a website’s robots.txt file, a simple web instruction that guides crawlers, and the rules apply to the underlying work or identity wherever it appears.
  • When the free registry opens in June, users will verify identity, set permissions, and publish machine-readable signals that AI systems can check before using protected material.
  • Starting now at rslmedia.org, people can reserve a Consent ID, read the open standard, and request to join as a trusted partner.