Danger and opportunity for news industry as AI woos it for vital human-written copy

With large language models needing quality data, some publishers are offering theirs at a price while others are blocking access

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, knows that high-quality data matters in the artificial intelligence business – and news publishers have vast amounts of it.

“It would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials,” the company said this year in a submission to the UK’s House of Lords, adding that limiting its options to books and …

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