Major publishers call on the US government to ‘Stop AI Theft’

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Hundreds of publishers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Verge parent company Vox Media, are running an ad campaign this week urging the government to protect content from AI. The campaign, called Support Responsible AI, is run by the News/Media Alliance trade association and consists of several ads that will appear in print and online. Each ad has phrases like, “Keep Watch On AI,” “Stop AI Theft,” and “AI Steals From You Too,” while the text on the bottom reads: “Stealing is un-American. Tell Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes.” The campaign comes just weeks after OpenAI and Google wrote letters to the government, urging it to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted content. Some of the ads included in the Support Responsible AI campaign. Image: News/Media Alliance The ... Read full article.