The Rights and Attribution Layer for AI

Reconnecting users with the trusted sources behind every AI answer.

Built for content owners, publishers, and platforms - an open protocol that lets you control access to your insights, while ensuring AI attribution and rewards for your content.

The Architectural Bottleneck in AI

AI is using the world’s information — but publishers are losing revenue, control, and trust. This leads to a broken marketplace: data is locked away, and AI’s progress is constrained. The problem is rooted into how AI systems work:

Centralized AI systems copy and blend data during training, erasing ownership and the terms under which the data was shared.

As outputs lose traceability - provenance, attribution, and usage metrics are lost, making participation undesirable for data owners.

There is an alternative: AI that uses your data without scraping and copying it, with traceability.

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Federated AI with Attribution-Based Control (ABC)

Syft introduces Attribution-Based Control — a new paradigm allowing users to discover one's insights through AI with traceability:

  • Publishers and Data Owners: Decide which AI predictions are informed by their data, while preserving attribution and the value of the data.
  • AI Developers: Access high-quality, licensed content legally and transparently.
  • End Users: Choose which trusted sources power their answers, and understand where the information comes from.

When you control your data instead of surrendering it to AI intermediaries through scraping or copying, you decide every use, know when it's used, and solve AI's core architectural flaw - the lack of traceable data usage, which precludes attribution and measurable compensation.

Read more about ABC →

How It Works

Syft is an open, decentralised protocol that enables content owners and publishers to define enforceable terms and attribution when AI queries their data:


👤 👤 👤 🏢 🏢 🏢 👥 Federated AI Network Users and AI Providers query the network using ABC. collective Syft AI Space Local Space to enable usage of assets and configure terms Distributed Data Data and models owned by different participants.
  1. Deploy with us Set up in a few clicks. Connect your platform (WordPress, Silverchair, etc.) and define your terms of use to be enforced.
  2. Controlled AI access AI systems query your data through Syft, which enforces your licensing, pricing, and attribution rules in real time.
  3. Measure usage and get royalties Every interaction is logged and attributed, while you earn royalties automatically.
  4. Empowering collectives Publishers can form collectives to pool content and strengthen their position through collective governance and bargaining.

Who Syft Is For

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Publishers & Media

.. and any content owner

  • Get attributed and earn royalties when AI uses your content.
  • Define enforceable terms for AI inference.
  • Track data usage transparently.
  • Join collectives for shared governance and bargaining.
Syft for Publishers →
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Researchers &
Data Repositories

  • Make your research discoverable - with secure, privacy-preserving access.
  • Find collaborators and comply with privacy and IRB requirements.
  • Monetize or offer controlled data access for research and AI.
Syft For Research Data →
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AI Developers & Providers

  • Infer from trusted publishers via APIs and MCP connectors.
  • Reduce hallucinations and bias with verified, attributed sources.
  • Ensure compliance with copyright and attribution requirements.
Syft For Developers →

Built on a Proven Foundation

OpenMined is a global nonprofit advancing privacy-preserving AI and equitable information access. We've educated 20,000+ learners, built open-source tools with 500+ contributors, and collaborated with organizations including Reddit, Microsoft, national statistics offices, and medical institutions to advance access to information.

Recognized by the White House, United Nations, and Royal Society, our mission is to build a fair, sustainable, and trustworthy information ecosystem - where data can be shared and used responsibly, without compromising ownership, privacy or trust.

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