Are Publishers Fighting For ‘The Right To Be Forgotten?’

When news broke on Tuesday of a new copyright infringement lawsuit filed against OpenAI and Microsoft, this time by eight daily newspapers, I was reminded of a conversation I had a month ago with Rich Skrenta, executive director at the Common Crawl, a nonprofit that supplies open-source web crawl data.

He argued that in the future, consumers would discover new content and search the Internet using large language models. And given that scenario, he said publishers suing AI firms over …

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