Tech giants urged to pay news media for AI content
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Tech companies should compensate news publishers for using their copyrighted content to train AI models, media experts told US senators.
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It's unclear if generative AI violates current copyright laws. Tech companies believe their use is protected under fair use, but publishers disagree.
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Licensing agreements between AI firms and publishers could allow media outlets to profit from generative AI. But smaller developers worry this could disadvantage them.
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Determining fair compensation is tricky without knowing exactly what content was used to train models. Publishers proposed a searchable database of scraped sites.
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Even if courts decide generative AI is legal, tech companies should still pay to use publishers' materials, experts argued.