NYT publisher warns AI companies are destroying independent journalism
During a speech at the World News Media Congress in Marseille on Monday (June 1), Sulzberger said that the “hijacking of the public square” by the artificial intelligence companies was “made possible by the original sin that animates their A.I. products — a brazen theft of intellectual property” that he said occurred “at an unprecedented scale.” He condemned the AI companies for stealing information from news organisations and repackaging it into a free shortcut for users, starving the journalists of traffic and revenue.“Tech giants strip-mine news websites without permission or compensation. They repackage these stolen goods as their own, siphoning off the audiences and revenue that otherwise would go to the news organisations that created this work. And this happens not just once during the training process, but countless times every single day,” the NYT publisher added.
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