“We cannot watch as AI companies attempt to permanently dismantle the rights that give us control over the work we create. We cannot sit by as this work is used to build replacement products that undermine our ability to earn the audience and revenue necessary to continue reporting the news.” (New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger)
- A.G. Sulzberger, speaking at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress in Marseille, called AI companies' use of copyrighted journalism "brazen theft at unprecedented scale" and urged news organizations to stop being passive about it.
- Five of the top 10 sites used to train major AI models belong to news publishers, yet less than half of one percent of US AI investment goes toward compensating content creators.
- Sulzberger argues fair use doctrine does not cover substitutive copying and regurgitation at this scale, and that paying for content would cost far less than the data centers and power plants AI companies are already building.
