Major publishers call on the US government to ‘Stop AI Theft’
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Summary
Several newspapers in the UK and elsewhere including the New York Times, the Washington Post and The Guardian have joined an alliance to create and publish a series of adverts in print and online to back a “responsible AI” campaign.
The campaign, under the name Support Responsible AI, created by the News/Media Alliance trade association, is calling on the US government to protect content from copyright infringement by big technology companies.
OpenAI and Google have recently written to the US government, calling for the lifting of copyright laws against AI models using training on copyrighted content.
The newspapers’ alliance claims that big tech companies are currently using journalists’ and writers’ own content without permission to power their AI products, thereby helping to create competition to these news brands, whilst handing revenue generated to the tech giants, rather than the original creators.