Arguably News Briefs

Publishers finally have AI buyers for their content yet zero say in the price. In the early days of generative AI , it seemed as if the labs were so heads-down building large language models that they didn’t think much about the raw material they were using. After all, big data sets like Common Crawl already existed, and trawling the open web was how search engines had worked for decades. Chatbots were arguably just a variation on that idea. Who knew that their method for sourcing information would get so controversial? It turns out, everybody. In a brief made public.