A new global push would make AI companies pay for news
Known as statutory licensing, the proposal would require AI companies to pay publishers for journalism used to train their systems, past and future.
Artificial intelligence companies have already trained their systems on vast amounts of journalism. That leaves a question news organizations are still struggling to answer: If AI depends on news reporting, who should pay for it now and in the future, as models require up-to-date information to remain useful?
Lawsuits such as the one filed by The New York Times against OpenAI may take years to resolve. In the meantime, publishers like Axel Springer and News Corp are striking individual content-sharing deals with AI companies — arrangements that help some outlets but may do little for the broader news ecosystem.
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