CJL director Dr. Courtney C. Radsch was included in this report emphasizing the necessity of fair compensation for human content creators whose work is utilized to train AI models.

There is palpable anxiety in the media industry about the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the news business, and on information integrity in general. For some news providers, the primary concern is about AI companies and platforms scraping and “ingesting” their copyright-protected content to train large language models (or LLMs) without compensation; others are concerned that AI is being used to generate answers to audience questions directly, and that will mean less web traffic sent to news publisher websites—the dreaded “Google Zero” phenomenon, as some have called it.

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