AI Companies Strike Deals for News Access, But Could Undermine Quality Journalism
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OpenAI and other AI companies are partnering with media outlets like Axel Springer to get access to news content to train their models.
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These deals allow AI systems to better approximate and generate news-style content.
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They also hedge against an future where scraping news sites becomes more difficult.
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However, AI-generated content is also accelerating the decline of quality public platforms that AI systems rely on for training data.
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As AI systems aim to automate lucrative media tasks, should publishers demand more in return than these partnerships currently provide?