TECH - News Media Alliance Says AI Chatbots Are Illegally Using Copyrighted News | Benzinga
News Media Alliance (NMA) is a nonprofit trade association representing around 2,000 print and digital news and magazine media companies in the U.S. and Canada. Companies such as CBS and Vicacom, owned by Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA)(NASDAQ: PARAA); Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA); News Corp (NASDAQ: NWSA); AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) control around 90% of media in the U.S.
A white paper by NMA addressed the aggressive copying of its members’ expressive works used to train generative artificial intelligence systems.
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What Happened: NMA in its white paper and accompanying submission to the U.S. Copyright Office stated the data sets that trained AI models significantly used a bigger chunk of news publisher content compared to other sources.
This leads to AI generations copying and using ...