NYT Publisher Sulzberger Warns AI Companies Risk Harming News Industry and Public Trust
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Corbin Bolies
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Summary
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger warned in a speech at the World News Media Congress that AI companies like OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Google are making choices that could cause "unnecessary harm" to the news industry and public access to reliable information. He criticized these companies for failing to embrace responsibility over the data powering generative AI systems, particularly regarding ensuring the public has access to trustworthy news sources.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledAI companies were making choices that could lead to 'a great deal of unnecessary harm' to the news business and the public's access to reliable sources
Companies leading the development of generative-AI systems are 'failing to embrace a core responsibility' of their control over the data fueling the technology's development
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