News Outlets Push for Payment From AI Companies for Using Content to Train ChatGPT

Newspapers want payment from AI companies like OpenAI for using their content to train ChatGPT. Over 500 news organizations have installed blockers to prevent their content from being scraped.

Discussions center on paying for links to news stories to appear in ChatGPT responses, which benefits papers through payment and potential traffic.

Other data sources like Reddit and Twitter are also looking for deals with AI companies or charging for bulk data access.

Publishers see this as an existential issue, with AI poised to transform how people interact with the internet.

Trade groups are pushing lawmakers on the right to collectively bargain with tech companies over payment for data used in training AI systems.