Initiative profile

TDM·AI

WIP

Asset-level protocol for binding machine-readable TDM and AI-training preferences to digital works.

Website
tdmai.org
Latest update
Nov 03, 2025 Usage vocabulary updated
Primary approach
Preference signal
Also uses
New infrastructure
Pipeline
Collect / Train / Fine-tune

What it is

TDM·AI is a protocol for attaching machine-readable text-and-data-mining and AI-training preferences to individual digital assets rather than to whole domains. It uses content-derived identifiers and verifiable credentials so declarations can remain tied to a work even when files move between platforms or lose embedded metadata.

The project is especially relevant where domain-level tools like robots.txt are too coarse, but it is still emerging and closely coupled to draft-stage vocabulary work elsewhere in the standards ecosystem.

Watchouts

The protocol is aligned to evolving IETF AI Preferences drafts and may change as those drafts mature.

Evidence trail