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Generative AI's copyright problem
Generative AI platforms trained on billions of images and texts without permission face mounting legal challenges over intellectual property rights.
Harvard Business Review · 4m

Cloudflare's plan to save the web from AI
Matthew Prince says bots now outnumber humans online. His company is building technology to make AI companies pay for the content they scrape.
The Verge · 4m

Google's AI payment plan pays publishers almost nothing
Google admits 100 publishers to a pilot program paying for content in AI answers, but the amounts are so small that larger publishers are refusing to join.
Ars Technica · 2m

Microsoft exec calls AI scraping 'largest theft of labor'
Unsealed court documents reveal Microsoft and OpenAI knew their training practices were wrong.
TechCrunch · 2m

Microsoft exec called AI scraping the largest theft of labor
Unsealed documents reveal Microsoft and OpenAI knew they were harming news publishers by training AI on their content without permission or compensation.
Ars Technica · 3m

Wikipedia's fight to stay relevant in the AI age
As answer engines hide Wikipedia's role in providing information, the nonprofit faces an unexpected crisis: fewer people visiting means fewer editors to maintain accuracy.
Adweek · 3m