A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI

Websites are being redesigned for consumption by AI models, and now a coalition wants to extend the trend to digital documents. The LF AI & Data Foundation, under the Linux Foundation, has formed a working group to steer the development of DocLang, an AI-friendly document format that aims to help enterprises feed their files to AI systems. The DocLang group, founded by IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, ABBYY, HumanSignal, and Forgis, contends that existing formats like PDF, Markdown, HTML, and LaTeX are