Story Protocol and OpenLedger have debuted a standard for showing how intellectual property is used in AI training. Story Protocol describes itself as an open protocol for registering, licensing and monetizing intellectual property. Together, the two companies have come up with a standard they say lets artificial intelligence (AI) systems train on licensed intellectual property (IP) while “cryptographically proving how that IP is used,” and making sure creators are compensated. “AI cannot scale on legal ambiguity,” said Ram Kumar, core contributor at OpenLedger. “If intelligence is becoming economic infrastructure, then intellectual property must be programmable, enforceable, and monetized by default.