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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Hern and Dan Milmo

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

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A divide is growing in news media between those set on defending their copyrighted material, and those who think they can work with the AI newcomers. Photograph: peterhowell/Getty Images/iStockphoto

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 drawings in the public domain would create underwhelming products.

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