AI chatbots use Canadian news, but Ottawa won't say if they should be paying for it

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The federal government is dodging questions about whether artificial intelligence companies should be paying Canadian news publishers for content their chatbots are openly using.

Last year, the Liberal government passed the Online News Act, which requires some tech companies to negotiate licensing agreements with news publishers to use their content.Models like Microsoft's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Meta AI all admit to using Canadian news to either train or provide answers to users' questions.

Meta said it remains exempt from the law because its AI system draws from sources across the web that are not restricted by the legislation. The Meta AI chatbot said it uses news sites to help answer users' questions, and was trained on a vast amount of data that includes news articles from Canadian sources.

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