The New York Times recently sued OpenAI, accusing the startup of unlawfully scraping “millions of [its] copyrighted news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, reviews, how-to guides and more.”
Danielle Coffey, CEO of the News/Media Alliance trade association, noted that chatbots designed to crawl the web and act like a search engine, like Microsoft Bing or Perplexity, can summarize articles too.
Readers could ask them to extract and condense information from news reports, meaning there would be less incentive for people to visit publishers’ sites, leading to a loss of traffic and ad revenue.
Jeff Jarvis, who recently retired from the City University of New York’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, is against licensing for all uses and was afraid it could set precedents that would affect journalists and small, open source companies competing with Big Tech.
Revealing their sources might make their AI tools look bad too, considering the amount of inappropriate text their models have ingested, including people’s personal information and toxic or NSFW content.
“The notion that the tech industry is saying that it’s too complicated to license from such an array of content owners doesn’t stand up,” said Curtis LeGeyt, president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters.
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The New York Times recently sued OpenAI, accusing the startup of unlawfully scraping “millions of [its] copyrighted news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, reviews, how-to guides and more.”
Danielle Coffey, CEO of the News/Media Alliance trade association, noted that chatbots designed to crawl the web and act like a search engine, like Microsoft Bing or Perplexity, can summarize articles too.
Readers could ask them to extract and condense information from news reports, meaning there would be less incentive for people to visit publishers’ sites, leading to a loss of traffic and ad revenue.
Jeff Jarvis, who recently retired from the City University of New York’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, is against licensing for all uses and was afraid it could set precedents that would affect journalists and small, open source companies competing with Big Tech.
Revealing their sources might make their AI tools look bad too, considering the amount of inappropriate text their models have ingested, including people’s personal information and toxic or NSFW content.
“The notion that the tech industry is saying that it’s too complicated to license from such an array of content owners doesn’t stand up,” said Curtis LeGeyt, president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters.
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