News Groups Seek Regulation, Compensation For Use Of Content By AI Firms

Several major news organisations have written an open letter to lawmakers and technology companies focusing on artificial intelligence and urged them to focus on two key issues related to the use of their content by AI-focused firms.

Several major news organisations have written an open letter to lawmakers and technology companies focusing on artificial intelligence and urged them to focus on two key issues: framing rules to protect copyright in the use of news content for training generative AI models; and facilitating compensation for publishers for the AI-centric use of their published news content by tech giants. At the heart of the copyright controversy are large language models (LLMs), a type of AI that has been trained on vast amounts of media, including published news content available on the internet The Indian media industry is keeping a close eye on the developments.

Via: ndtv.com