is digital media. AI companies are doing their best to establish a foothold in a wary news market, and one of the ways they’ve been doing that is by offering free services and partnerships. Case in point: not long ago, Google ominouslya number of legacy news organizations—including the Times and the Washington Post—in an effort to sell them on a new AI tool, dubbed “Genesis,” that it claimed would “help” journalists.
At the same time, AI companies seem to smell another kind of opportunity when it comes to partnering with the news media. Since indiscriminate web scraping has proven to be a controversial practice, AI companies are currently searching for new, legally safer methods to attain the data they need to make their products run properly.
that would allow the artificial intelligence startup to access and use the AP’s text archives. In exchange, OpenAI offered the AP access to “OpenAI’s technology and product expertise.”In short: the AI industry really wants to achieve integration with the news. Given the unknown dangers that such a collaboration may involve, however, it may make more sense for media outlets to continue playing hard ball for the time being.