Major publishers and influential blogs can publish complete, regularly updated, lightly redacted archives plus machine-readable manifests and usage instructions so that AI agents can directly ingest and cite their material. This standardizes a publisher-to-AI pipeline (baseline snapshot + incremental updates) and creates a durable, provable corpus for both human and machine readers.
— If publishers adopt this model, it will reshape AI training, answer provenance, and cultural gatekeeping by making certain sources both easier to find and harder to ignore in automated systems.
Alex Tabarrok
2026.10.26
100% relevant
Marginal Revolution's ai-archive (https://marginalrevolution.com/ai-archive/), its manifest.json and llms.txt instructions, plus baseline + weekly update downloads and explicit invitation 'we love our ... AI readers'.
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