CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch publishes an expert brief laying out the urgent need for a framework for protecting, sourcing, and compensating journalists and news publishers for their work, which is increasingly used by AI companies to develop their large language models.

Dr. Radsch’s expert brief provides a framework for protecting, sourcing, and compensating journalists and news publishers for the use of their work in artificial intelligence systems. 

 News publishers, along with the creative industries more broadly, must actively define the worth of their content and data by understanding how and why value is created throughout the generative AI process, from developing foundation models to powering real-time search, if they want to obtain fair compensation. But journalism cannot be expected to adapt its business models to the AI era without interventions by policymakers to correct market imbalances, enforce intellectual property rights, and require data access and transparency of AI systems. This brief provides critical insights into the prevalence of journalism in AI models and systems and proposes how the news industry and policymakers should respond to ensure the viability of independent journalism in the age of AI.