Today, hundreds of news publishers launched the “Support Responsible AI” ad campaign, which calls on Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes to run its AI products.
I came across one these ads about AI Theft from the News Media Alliance and followed it to this site about how, News Media Publishers Run Coordinated Ad Campaign Urging Washington to Protect Content From Big Tech and AI. They have three asks:
- Require Big Tech and AI companies to fairly compensate content creators.
- Mandate transparency, sourcing, and attribution in AI-generated content
- Prevent monopolies from engaging in coercive and anti-competitive practices.
Gary Marcus has a substack column on Sam Altman’s attitude problem that talks about Altman’s lack of a response when confronted with an example of what seems like IP theft. I think the positions are hardening as groups begin to use charged language like “theft” for what AI companies are doing.