M.Media mogul Barry Diller warned Wednesday that artificial intelligence (AI) could become as “disruptive” for news publishers as free online news was in the early 2000s. .
Speaking at the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism, Diller, co-founder of the Fox Broadcasting Company and current chairman of the publishing giant IAC, said he had to protect the news.・The company said it was working with CEO Robert Thomson and German publisher Axel Springer. Protect the publisher from his AI threat.
In a conversation with journalist and conference organizer Tina Brown, Diller said that by doing nothing, AI tools like ChatGPT “suck up all the known work that’s been done. He said it was a “terrible mistake” to have allowed Large-scale language models like ChatGPT are trained on large amounts of content collected from across the internet.
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The millionaire, who is also chairman of Expedia, compared the potential impact of AI on media companies to the early days of online news, before paywalls. “You’ve seen enormous destruction in the past, certainly over the past 15 years,” he said.
AI tools trained on content published by news outlets pose a threat to media businesses as they allow users to access information from news archives without paying the companies that produced the information. increase. This will allow users to effectively bypass paywalls for a huge number of publications.
“If publishers don’t say, ‘We can’t do that until we have a mechanism for publishers to get paid,’ there will be another wave.” [that is] It’s even more devastating,” he added.
Discussing whether copyright law’s “fair use” rules could be used as a defense against AI companies that collect vast amounts of content from publishers, Diller said: You can’t do fair use when there is endless unfair machinery. ”
He went on to say: people News Corp. and Axel Springer are leading groups calling for copyright law reform “if necessary” and threatening lawsuits against publishers who use their content without permission. “You have the right to control what you publish,” he said.
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Since opening ChatGPT to the public in November, both companies have become increasingly vocal about AI. News Corp’s Thomson said in March that it was in talks with an unnamed AI company seeking compensation for its content being used as training materials, reports said. Australian Financial Review. It’s not the first time the company has attacked a big tech company to protect its own business. In 2021, News Corporation signed deals with Google and Facebook to bill tech giants for their content.
In a March letter to employees, Politico and devil Matthias Dopfner, CEO of owner Axel Springer, warned that AI could replace journalists. Guardian report. “Artificial intelligence has the potential to better or even replace independent journalism,” he wrote.
Despite voicing concerns about AI companies, Diller said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, “understands the dangers” of AI. rice field. Altman, an Expedia board member and a friend of Diller’s, plans to “pull the plug” if the technology gets into dangerous territory, Diller said. “There will be no more custodians,” he added. “It’s not going to be bad under Sam Altman. Unfortunately, or fortunately, he’s not the only player.”
Diller’s warning came hours before Google announced the release of PaLM 2, its answer to ChatGPT. Large language models can be used to power chatbots like ChatGPT, as well as writing computer code, translating languages, and analyzing images.
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