News and magazine publishers are reportedly trying to protect their businesses from artificial intelligence (AI) companies.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), publishers considering banding together to tackle the issue report Wednesday (June 28), according to an anonymous source.
One of the publishers is reportedly WSJ parent company News Corporation.
One of the publishers’ concerns, according to the report, is how their content, both text and images, is being used to “train” AI tools and whether they should be compensated.
Another concern, according to the report, is that generative AI tools provide information to users without requiring users to click links to go directly to the source.
They are also concerned about their content being combined with that of other publishers and presented to users by AI tools without verifying the origin of the content, the report said.
In April, it was reported that Twitter owner Elon Musk threatened to sue Microsoft for “illegal” use of the platform. data After reporting that Microsoft’s advertising platform will stop supporting Twitter because the social media company demands payment for access to its application programming interface (API).
“They used Twitter data to train illegally. It’s time to sue,” Musk said. Tweet.
A report by The Verge noted that Musk’s oblique threat apparently involves Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which uses data from Twitter to train its own generative AI tool, ChatGPT.
How companies collect, collect and use data to enhance their business, as PYMNTS reported on April 11th AI solution It should be central to any regulatory framework.
Enact guardrails around the provenance of data used by Large Language Models (LLMs) and other training models to flag the source of synthetic content generated by AI models, including text, images, and even voice applications By making it clear that the Protect consumer privacy without hindering innovation and growth in the private sector.
Publishers are also clashing with tech giants on issues other than AI.
For example, in May Meta announced it would be removed. news From Facebook and Instagram if forced to pay by California law.
The proposed Preservation of Journalism Act would require online platforms to pay “journalism royalties” to news providers whose content is displayed on their platforms and used to sell advertising.
