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TollBit, a startup focused on "content licensing," recently warned news publishers that several artificial intelligence companies are circumventing common web standards used by publishers to prevent scraped content and using the scraped content to train generative AI systems, Reuters reported on Saturday. The news comes amid a public dispute between AI search startup Perplexity and Forbes over the same web standards. Currently, there is a broader debate between technology and media companies about the value of content in the age of generative AI. TollBit has warned news publishers that several artificial intelligence companies are circumventing common web standards used by publishers to prevent scraped content and using the scraped content to train generative AI systems. TollBit has warned news publishers that several artificial intelligence companies are circumventing common web standards used by publishers to prevent scraped content and using the scraped content to train generative AI systems. TollBit has warned news publishers that it is ...

On April 30, local time, eight U.S. newspaper publishers filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in a federal court in New York, claiming that the latter has been reusing articles created by the publishers in its generative AI products without permission, and blaming the publishers themselves for inaccuracies in the information, CNBC reported. According to a complaint filed by eight publishers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ChatGPT has been misappropriating millions of the publishers' copyrighted articles "without permission and without payment". The lawsuit...

Google is quietly working on deals with select publishers to create news content using new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Adweek reports. The partnership agreements, reportedly worth tens of thousands of dollars per year, appear to be part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), a six-year program that provides media literacy programs, fact-checking tools, and other resources to news organizations. However, the move involves generative AI content creation, which could be controversial. Image source Pexels reports that the program is currently aimed at a "handful" of small publishers, and that testing the tools will allow for the creation of...